Laura Cole
Compassionate support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Cole is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota. She focuses on family and parenting concerns as well as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make conversations clear and practical for parents and caregivers.
She draws on 14 years of formal clinical experience and a longer career in mental health to shape individual care.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Laura works to create straightforward goals and steps that families can try between meetings. Her approach addresses problems like abandonment, attachment issues, and communication breakdowns within families.
She also supports people managing chronic pain or illness, mood and panic symptoms, and trauma-related concerns. The focus includes everyday struggles such as guilt, shame, isolation, and finding life purpose. Therapy with Laura often centers on improving interactions, setting boundaries, and building coping skills.
She emphasizes practical strategies families can use at home. Progress is tracked through small, achievable changes rather than big promises. Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches for families and parenting online
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer family interactions. One common method helps people identify unhelpful patterns in family routines and communication, then teaches small skills to shift those patterns and reduce conflict. This approach is useful for relationship strains, communication problems, and attachment concerns.Another approach centers on building coping skills for anxiety, panic, and mood difficulties. It breaks skills into short practices that can be tried at home between sessions, helping people manage symptoms and respond differently to stress. That work often supports parents juggling life transitions and chronic health challenges.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts techniques to fit family life, schedules, and what feels manageable. This is a collaborative decision so changes feel realistic and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit appointments around school, work, and caregiving. They also let therapists and families keep momentum between meetings through shorter check-ins or messages when needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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