About Laura
Laura Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people untangle stress, anxiety, depression, and the everyday strains that make life feel overwhelming. She also offers support around relationship issues, family conflict, grief, trauma, and ADHD.
Her sessions are direct and practical. She listens first, then helps people set small, realistic goals they can try between sessions. She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
Clients often come with problems that affect daily life - trouble sleeping, angry outbursts, low self-esteem, or difficulty with intimacy. Laura helps people learn concrete skills for managing symptoms and making steady changes over time. She also addresses addictions, eating and body image concerns, and obsessive or compulsive patterns.
When relationships are strained, she helps individuals talk through communication patterns and rebuild trust in themselves and others. She supports those coping with divorce, infidelity, jealousy, or family problems. She also brings experience with veteran and armed forces issues.
Her work draws from therapies like cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused methods, and client-centered listening. This mix lets her tailor sessions to what actually helps a person move forward. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled in formats that fit busy lives.
Laura works with people to create plans that fit their goals and day-to-day reality.
Therapeutic approaches and what they do online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts, and sleep or eating issues.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit those needs and preferences. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what proves helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or geographic limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter, frequent contacts or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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