Laura Westbrook
Supportive counselor for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Westbrook is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who uses a person-centered approach to make therapy feel simple and human. She focuses on building acceptance, empathy, and connection so parents can talk through hard moments and find practical ways forward. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with room for humor, media, and music when that helps a family member open up.
She often blends client-centered listening with attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior.
Background and approach
That helps with issues like anxiety, grief, and problems rooted in early connection or abandonment. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolbox for people working through addictions or big life changes. Westbrook has seven years of clinical experience and has worked mainly in nonprofit settings treating addiction and trauma.
That background includes helping people impacted by domestic violence, chronic illness, and HIV, and supporting clients from diverse religious and sexual orientation backgrounds. Her past work involved serving both male and female populations across ages. Laura earned graduate degrees from the University of Florida and completed earlier studies at the University of Alabama.
She grew up in California and says living in different regions shaped how she relates to clients. That range of experience informs her straightforward, compassionate way of guiding people through parenting and family challenges. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration - the client is the expert on their life, and she acts as a guide.
Parents and caregivers can expect clear conversation, practical tools, and a focus on strengthening relationships within the family.
How her approaches translate to online family work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships influence current behavior and closeness. Online sessions use conversations to identify patterns between parents and children, and then try small changes to improve connection and safety. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and acceptance. In remote sessions the therapist reflects what she hears, helps parents name their worries, and supports their own problem-solving without judgment.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will suggest methods that fit those needs. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made or as family priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to check in between meetings. Video lets participants read facial cues, while messaging can help keep momentum when time is tight, offering flexibility for different comfort levels and routines.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Laura
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point