Laura Hattrup
Calm, practical support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LSCSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Hattrup is a licensed social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to parents and caregivers. Laura draws on 16 years of practice to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting struggles, and money-related worries.
She aims to make change feel possible and practical rather than overwhelming. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions center on the parent's priorities and real-life routines.
Background and approach
She helps people notice strengths they already have and build small steps toward healthier habits. Conversations often include problem solving, coping skills, and clearer ways to talk about needs. Laura uses approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to shift unhelpful thoughts and reduce stress.
She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. These tools are mixed to fit the situation rather than used rigidly. She has experience across a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and women's issues.
Laura also addresses career questions and transitions that affect family life. Her Kansas licensure is listed as KS LSCSW LSCSW 4251 and MO LCSW 2023025897. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Practical guidance, real skills, and steady support are priorities in her work. If a parent wants straightforward help to reduce overwhelm and improve daily life, she focuses on clear steps to get there.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following a parent's priorities. The therapist reflects concerns and supports the parent's own goals, which helps when decisions feel unclear or overwhelming.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. It teaches simple exercises to reduce worry, manage mood, and change unhelpful thinking patterns that affect daily parenting tasks.
Mindfulness therapy helps people notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Short breathing and awareness practices can lower stress and make parenting moments feel less intense.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the parent about goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust based on what works. The plan is shaped by each family's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video and phone let people have fuller conversations and practice new skills together. Live chat and text help with quick check-ins, homework, and coping prompts between sessions. This variety gives parents flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules while working on concrete skills.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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