About Laure
Laure DeForges is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She draws on seven years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or major life changes. Laure aims to make therapy straightforward and respectful so clients can take small, useful steps forward.
She focuses on practical skills for managing mood, sleep, and stress. Laure helps clients untangle issues around intimacy, self-esteem, and relationships. She also offers support for addiction concerns, grief, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse.
How Laure works
Laure pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and control issues shape daily life. She works with people facing codependency, commitment concerns, and problems connected to family dynamics. Her approach addresses both mental health and life goals, including career and coaching needs.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Laure uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques while honoring each person’s story and strengths. She helps clients try out coping tools between sessions and adjusts them when something doesn’t fit.
English-language care is provided through remote formats. Laure’s work is designed for people who want a practical partner in solving problems and building more satisfying routines and relationships.
What Laure works with
The areas below are the ones Laure selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Laure uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address common problems like anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictive behaviors. She often focuses on practical skill-building - helping people learn breathing, sleep, and stress management strategies that can be tried between sessions. These techniques aim to reduce day-to-day distress and improve coping for life transitions and relationship strain.She also attends to attachment and interpersonal patterns such as abandonment, codependency, and commitment worries. Work in this area includes identifying repeating patterns in relationships, trying new ways to communicate, and practicing boundaries that feel manageable. Progress is measured by what actually changes in daily life rather than abstract goals.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Laure will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan with the client’s goals and preferences in mind. The process is meant to be flexible, with periodic check-ins to see what is helping and what needs to shift.
Online therapy offers practical advantages: video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual connection matters; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins; live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates or work through immediate concerns without scheduling a longer session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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