About Laura
Laura Johnson is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Wisconsin with five years of clinical experience. She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, addiction, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and collaborative, aimed at making therapy feel like a shared effort rather than a lecture.
She builds treatment plans around each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions center on real-life goals - better sleep, fewer panicked moments, clearer boundaries, or more stable mood and focus. Parents and caregivers often seek help for burnout, parenting strain, and blended family challenges. Laura draws from several evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based ideas.
She uses these approaches to teach coping skills, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and strengthen close relationships. The work is practical and skills-based, with exercises people can try between sessions. Her background includes experience with addiction, court-involved clients, military-related concerns, and multicultural issues.
She has worked in individual and group formats and offers support for grief, trauma, eating and sleeping struggles, and self-esteem challenges. Laura emphasizes realistic steps and steady progress. Outside of work she spends time with family and her dogs, and enjoys outdoor activities like camping and riding trails.
That relaxed, approachable energy carries into her clinical work, where she aims to help people take manageable steps toward feeling better.
Therapy Approaches and How They Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. This can help with anxiety, depression, and problems like ADHD when focus or avoidance get in the way.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is handy for sleep problems, mood shifts, anxiety, and impulsive behavior.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships affect current connections and communication. It can be useful for intimacy issues, family strain, and improving emotional safety in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. This means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and messaging or live chat can work for brief updates or when flexibility is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and different daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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