About Surilla
Surilla Lawrence is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan. She offers a calm, respectful approach and works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, depression, and addiction. She aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that fits each person's life.
She uses practical, everyday talk in sessions and focuses on clear goals. Surilla adapts therapy to each person's situation, helping them learn tools for emotion regulation and better communication.
How Surilla works
She pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current patterns. Her work draws from several approaches that help with mood, connection, and coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify thoughts that keep problems going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and distress. Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas help people understand closeness and repair in relationships. Surilla brings seven years of professional experience to her practice.
She supports people through life changes such as divorce, blended family adjustments, caregiver stress, and grief related to serious illness and end-of-life concerns. She also addresses issues like codependency, shame, and intimacy-related struggles. Sessions can explore parenting strain, communication problems, control issues, and career stress alongside mental health concerns such as bipolar symptoms or addiction challenges.
Surilla explains options clearly and works with each person to set realistic next steps. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The process begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions that fit the individual's needs.
Surilla lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Surilla works with
The areas below are the ones Surilla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence how people relate now and helps address patterns of fear, distance, or clinginess in relationships. It is useful for people struggling with trust, abandonment fears, or disconnect from loved ones.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns, test them, and practice new responses for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and make adjustments along the way so sessions match current needs.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls that mimic in-person sessions, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or hands-free conversations, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules and to use tools and homework in daily life. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and skills for each format to keep work focused and goal-oriented.
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