About Laura
Laura Leatherman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD. She provides straightforward, respectful care and focuses on building a trusting relationship. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented so people can see progress in day-to-day life.
Laura draws on client-centered work to listen closely and tailor sessions to each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused methods to set small, achievable steps toward clearer goals. Her background includes work in outpatient counseling clinics, hospitals, a residential program, and an emergency shelter. Those settings shaped a calm, problem-solving style that works in busy lives.
She has supported people coping with trauma, relationship conflict, anger, parenting stress, sleep problems, and career questions. Sessions are aimed at practical changes - improving coping skills, reducing overwhelm, and strengthening communication. Laura pays attention to what is working now and what can be adjusted.
She helps with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, social anxiety, and life transitions like pregnancy or midlife shifts. People meet her for short-term focused work or longer-term support depending on their goals. She explains tools clearly and practices them together in the session.
The emphasis is on real steps that fit everyday routines and responsibilities.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. It helps people who need a nonjudgmental space to sort priorities and set personal goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thought patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood and practice different responses. It is useful for worries, sleep problems, anger, and many everyday challenges.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small practical steps and immediate changes. This approach suits people who want concrete actions and short-term progress toward specific goals.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and adapt techniques based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow more visual connection, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into work, school, or parenting routines while still focusing on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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