About Laura
Laura Aiken is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people break repeating patterns that hold them back. She listens without judgement and helps callers name what's most pressing. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at real changes in day-to-day life.
She uses several approaches to match each person's needs, combining client-centered work with skills-based tools and mindful practices. Sessions often include goal-setting, practicing new ways to cope, and looking at personal stories that shape current choices.
Background and approach
That mix helps with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and trauma recovery. Before moving into independent practice, she spent years working in addiction settings and with drug courts, and she supported people in a local recovery home. That background informs how she talks about relapse, patterns, and rebuilding routines after setbacks.
Laura draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for intense emotions and on motivational interviewing when ambivalence gets in the way of change. She also uses narrative and client-centered techniques to help people rewrite hard parts of their life story in ways that feel manageable and realistic. Sessions can include short skill practice, problem-solving, and exploring personal meaning.
People who want clear steps, steady support, and a therapist who adapts methods to fit their situation may find this approach useful.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals first and focuses on listening and understanding. In practice this means sessions begin with what matters most to the client and move at a pace that feels manageable. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for handling intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. These skills are useful for anxiety, mood swings, and strong reactions to stress. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and physical sensations without getting swept away by them, and it supports reduction in rumination and reactivity.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to try different tools and see what fits best for their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may include combining skills training, motivational conversations, and narrative work to match how someone learns and changes.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling and access easier. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be shorter or fit into a break at work, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats aim to give flexible ways to practice skills, review progress, and stay connected between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English