About Laura
Laura Wheeler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or the challenges of parenting and caregiving. She also supports people managing attention differences such as ADHD, including struggles with impulsivity, focus, concentration, and memory.
Laura centers sessions on each person's strengths and lived experience. She treats the client as the expert on their own story and works with them to set practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on small, achievable steps that build confidence and reduce daily strain. Her work draws on several evidence-based techniques. Cognitive behavioral approaches are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try alternative behaviors.
Dialectical behavior strategies help manage strong emotions and improve coping in stressful moments. She may also suggest readings or exercises between sessions to reinforce new skills. Sessions are tailored to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Laura adapts tools to match a person’s needs and preferences, adjusting pace as progress is made. The emphasis is on skills you can use outside of sessions to handle real-life demands. People who want clear, practical steps and a supportive therapist to guide them often find this style helpful.
Laura aims to empower clients to make steady changes that improve daily functioning and overall wellbeing.
Skill-based approaches and how they work online
Laura often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical alternatives; this can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by changing how daily problems are approached. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills, which are useful for managing intense feelings and impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try techniques, see what fits, and adjust the plan based on goals and feedback. Sessions are structured to build skills gradually and to match a person’s pace and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing busy schedules or limited travel ability. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive work on skills. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when written reflection feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and practice techniques in day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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