Laura Shires
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting struggles
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Shires is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with five years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps parents and caregivers can use day to day.
She listens first, then tailors conversation and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to build confidence, lift motivation, and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Laura emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while keeping work grounded and practical. Her background includes five years of direct clinical work supporting people through trauma, grief, and issues with sleep, eating, and addiction-related concerns. She also addresses intimacy-related matters, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD symptoms.
Laura uses approaches based on evidence to guide sessions and measure progress. In practice she helps clients sort through relationship and family challenges, parenting stress, and conflicts that affect daily life. Her approach breaks problems into manageable steps and focuses on what can change now.
The goal is practical coping skills and clearer decision making. Laura encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard. She offers a supportive presence and practical tools to help people move toward a more balanced life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Laura uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life changes. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new responses, which can ease anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating problems. Trauma-informed methods pay attention to safety and pacing, helping people process difficult experiences at a rate they can handle.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and adjust methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy families and individuals. Video calls let sessions feel more personal, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to check in between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a hectic schedule and to maintain continuity when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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