Laura Nagy
Practical, strengths-based counseling for families and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Nagy uses a client-centered, solution-focused approach to guide people through difficult life moments. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with three decades of work in the mental health field. Laura writes short, practical steps and may suggest homework between sessions to keep progress moving.
She emphasizes a strengths-based perspective and helps clients identify supports they already have. Laura has worked in crisis counseling since 1995. Her experience includes helping people with depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive concerns.
Background and approach
She has also supported those dealing with trauma, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal thoughts. Her background includes work around relationship stress, work and career problems, parenting challenges, and broader family issues. Her practice often addresses a wide range of concerns such as grief, self-esteem, addictions, intimacy struggles, sleep and eating issues, anger, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Additional focuses include blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. First responder stress, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose are also within her experience. Laura prefers straightforward conversation and practical tools.
She supports clients in setting their own goals and works collaboratively to meet them. Homework and skill practice are commonly used so progress continues between sessions. She lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter and brings about 30 years of clinical experience to her work.
Laura’s approach centers on helping people build a solid set of tools to move toward greater well-being and more peaceful daily life.
Therapy Approaches and How They Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports personal choices; this approach can help with relationship strain, self-esteem, and parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thinking and behavior patterns. It uses practical exercises and short homework to change unhelpful thoughts and routines, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps shape sessions and the kinds of tools that are used.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and locations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text messaging let people use brief check-ins or written reflections. These options make it easier to fit consistent support into a busy life while still using practical CBT exercises and client-led conversations.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point