Laura Thompson
Practical, steady support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Thompson is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. Her work often centers on relationship and family concerns, including parenting challenges and the emotional fallout of separation or loss.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions are practical and centered on what a person needs right now.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of talk, skill-building, and real-world homework so progress carries over into daily life. Over the years she has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and sleep or eating struggles. She also addresses issues such as body image, self-esteem, panic, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors.
Laura brings steady experience to complex emotional situations without jargon or needless complexity. She draws on several evidence-informed approaches to match a person’s needs. That means therapy can include strategies to change unhelpful thinking, build new coping skills, or deepen emotional connection in relationships.
The therapist adapts methods to each person rather than following a single script. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Laura works with people who want clear tools and honest conversation while navigating parenting, family problems, and everyday pressures.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values and then take small steps toward a meaningful life even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and builds practical skills to change behavior and mood. It often helps with panic, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, is aimed at improving emotional connection and communication, which can be helpful for relationship and family issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and what is actually working. That means sessions can shift over time from skill-building to deeper emotional work as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and people with limited local options. Video calls let sessions feel face-to-face, phone sessions simplify access without video, and live chat or text messaging make it easier to check in between appointments. These formats make it possible to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point