About Laura
Laura Ward uses a person-centred approach to help people facing difficult times. She offers steady, empathetic support and believes clients know their own stories best. Laura draws on three years of practice in the UK and brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions.
Her work focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood challenges, and the strains that come from caregiving or compassion fatigue.
How Laura works
Practical areas include career worries, anger, parenting pressures and navigating major life changes. Laura uses Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to tailor sessions to each person. She helps clients notice unhelpful thought patterns, explore emotional responses and strengthen connections that matter.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. She has experience supporting people affected by attachment and abandonment issues, autism and ADHD, blended family concerns, and the impact of chronic illness or disability. Additional focus areas include substance-related problems, eating and body image difficulties, and communication or commitment problems.
Sessions are delivered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Laura holds BACP as her listed credential. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair people with a suitable schedule and session format.
Laura lists 3 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Laura's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts your experience at the centre of the work. The therapist listens without judgement and follows your pace, helping you name feelings and priorities. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to make sense of difficult events.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them in day-to-day life. It uses simple practical exercises and short reflections to reduce anxiety, lift mood and change patterns that hold you back.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional reactions that affect close relationships and self-connection. It can help with difficulties around attachment, trust and emotional closeness.
Finding the right fit is part of the process and will be decided together. Laura will discuss needs, goals and preferences to shape which approaches are used and how sessions progress. The work is collaborative, with space to review what is helping and what needs to change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy days and distant locations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits short check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the therapeutic focus.
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