About Vanessa
Vanessa LaRose is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She also supports those facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem struggles.
Vanessa creates a calm space where people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. She aims to reduce judgment and make room for practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on real-life problems and coping strategies. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients try different ways to handle daily challenges.
Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. Vanessa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and build skills. That may include approaches for managing anxiety, improving communication, and developing routines that support focus and mood.
She tailors those techniques to each person’s situation and needs. If someone is curious about working together, Vanessa suggests starting with a short intake to describe current concerns. From there she and the client map out practical next steps, like coping tools, behavioral changes, or ongoing coaching toward life goals.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Vanessa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One common approach focuses on teaching coping and problem-solving strategies to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning; this is useful for stress, panic, and mood concerns. Another approach emphasizes work on communication and behavior patterns to ease relationship strain and improve boundaries; it helps people change day-to-day interactions that keep problems alive.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Vanessa collaborates with each person to find what fits their goals, needs, and preferences. She suggests methods, tries interventions together, and adjusts course if something isn’t working so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy here can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let you talk face-to-face, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter exchanges, and messaging is helpful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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