Laura Arnold
Compassionate practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, South Carolina, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Arnold is a licensed counselor practicing with nine years of experience. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and works from South Carolina. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues related to LGBT identity and trauma.
Many referrals are for anger, self-esteem, career shifts, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Her approach is conversational and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps.
Background and approach
She listens with empathy and aims to build trust before introducing tools. The pace and content adjust to each person's needs. Laura draws on client-centered work to keep conversations focused on what matters to the client.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also employs dialectical behavior therapy skills and motivational interviewing to support change and manage strong emotions. Her background includes work in independent practice and settings that treated substance use and serious mental health concerns.
That range informs how she works with people facing addiction, personality challenges, and complex life stressors. She emphasizes collaboration and real-world strategies. Sessions make space to talk about attachment, abandonment, communication problems, codependency, infidelity, narcissism, and financial stress.
The goal is to build clearer choices and steadier coping so people can move forward from difficult situations.
Therapeutic methods and online options explained
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. It means the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s priorities to help them find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to sort feelings and make decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It uses short exercises and practical experiments to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress in daily life.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships. It includes strategies for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and clearer communication when things feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so the plan fits the person’s needs and circumstances.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people connect from home, fit therapy into busy schedules, and stay in touch between live conversations. The flexibility makes it easier to keep momentum and apply new skills in real life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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