Laura Lathan
Calm, practical support for parents
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Lathan is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Alabama who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for parents feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the challenges of managing ADHD in children. Laura speaks plainly and helps families learn concrete strategies rather than promising quick fixes.
She frames therapy as teamwork and aims to help parents feel more confident in supporting their children while also caring for themselves.
Background and approach
She draws on three years of clinical experience working with children and families on attention and behavioral challenges, mood disorders, and anxiety. Laura uses practical tools to address communication problems, caregiver stress, and relationship tension at home. She also supports parents navigating divorce, attachment concerns, postpartum mood changes, and isolation.
Her day-to-day work includes teaching skills to manage strong emotions and to interrupt unhelpful thought patterns. Laura integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing thinking and behavior, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which builds emotion regulation and coping skills. Sessions are aimed at real-life application and steady progress.
Laura emphasizes collaboration: she combines her clinical training with each family’s lived knowledge. Her approach is straightforward, skills-based, and rooted in empathy. Parents who want practical strategies and a supportive listener may find her style helpful.
Evidence-based approaches for online family support
Laura combines a few well-established methods to help families cope and adapt. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing them into more realistic ones; it helps with anxiety, depression, and problem behaviors by teaching straightforward thinking and behavior strategies. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes skill-building for handling intense emotions and improving stress responses; it is useful when strong reactions make parenting or family life harder.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Laura works with each family to understand their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try techniques, adjust based on what fits, and build practical plans that can be used at home.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents. Video calls let families meet face to face without travel, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging allow for shorter check-ins or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into hectic schedules and to practice new skills consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Laura
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point