About Laura
Laura Walls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings.
Her approach mixes attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral strategies and client-centered listening. That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and centers each person’s goals and values.
How Laura works
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing often appear when building motivation and emotional awareness. Laura has a long history working in varied counseling settings, which gives her a broad perspective on common struggles. She has spent years helping adults manage career strain, parenting pressures, grief, trauma, and the emotional fallout of separation or blended family situations.
She also addresses issues like ADHD, bipolar symptoms, sleep disruption, and compassion fatigue. In sessions, she keeps language simple and practical. Conversations aim to increase self-awareness, improve communication, and grow coping skills that fit everyday life.
Homework is realistic and tied to each person’s routines and responsibilities. People come for help with intimacy-related concerns, body image, abandonment wounds, attachment issues, and navigating adoption or foster care histories. Laura uses techniques that match the presenting concern and the person’s readiness to change.
Laura lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and present relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods so sessions stay practical and relevant to current challenges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and deeper skill work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, on-the-go support and a different way to process thoughts between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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