About Vanessa
Vanessa LaRose is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Vanessa works to create a calm space where clients can speak honestly about how they feel and what they want to change.
She supports people coping with trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Vanessa also helps those navigating career stress, parenting challenges, and life transitions.
How Vanessa works
Her work includes attention to issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns like bipolar disorder. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward. Vanessa listens first and then helps clients set small, realistic goals.
She encourages steps that fit daily life so progress feels manageable. Her approach is collaborative. Clients and Vanessa decide together which strategies to try and when to adjust the plan.
This makes the process feel less overwhelming and more tailored to individual needs. Vanessa offers therapy in English and conducts sessions online using several formats. People contact the service team to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
She practices as an LPC in Wisconsin and brings experience from diverse clinical settings to her work.
What Vanessa works with
The areas below are the ones Vanessa 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and how they help
Vanessa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and emotional understanding. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress, helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding in daily life. This is useful for panic, ongoing worry, and day-to-day overwhelm.Another approach centers on processing trauma and painful experiences at a pace the client controls. It helps reduce the intensity of distressing memories and supports rebuilding safety and trust in relationships and routine life. This work often pairs breathing and grounding steps with gradual exposure to difficult topics.
Finding the right method is part of the process and Vanessa treats it as a collaboration. She listens to each person's goals and preferences, then suggests steps to try. If something does not feel helpful, she adjusts the plan with the client until they find a better fit.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, talk by phone, or use live chat and text-based messaging when that suits them better. Video calls are good for full conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, school, or family rhythms.
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