About Laura
Laura Duncan is a licensed master social worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related concerns. She brings nine years of clinical experience and focuses on clear, practical steps people can use outside sessions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel doable and relevant.
Laura works with people going through life transitions and relationship struggles. She helps clients who are coping with grief, parenting stress, burnout, chronic illness, or career challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions often include developing routines, communication tools, and realistic problem-solving strategies. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings while helping clients test new behaviors and thoughts.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also inform her work when people want to build self-awareness or strengthen motivation for change. In therapy with Laura, conversations are focused and practical. People can expect to set small goals, try new skills between sessions, and review what works.
She aims to help clients feel more in control of day-to-day life and more capable of handling setbacks. Laura sees adults from Michigan and also works with international clients in English. Her experience includes a wide range of concerns such as trauma, intimacy issues, eating and body image struggles, caregiver stress, and complex mood conditions.
The goal is steady progress, one clear step at a time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions let clients talk through relationship patterns and try new responses in real time while staying in familiar routines.Client-centered therapy centers the persons concerns and priorities. In remote sessions the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set goals that feel important and realistic.
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test practical behavior changes. CBT in video or phone sessions often includes worksheets, behavior experiments, and short homework tasks to practice between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She will work together with each client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferred pace. That collaborative planning can shift as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or homework check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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