About Laura
Laura Clarke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon. She brings four years of experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, trauma, eating concerns, mood disorders, and ADHD. Her style is straightforward and calm, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She centers sessions on what each person needs in the moment. Conversations focus on clear goals, skill-building, and understanding patterns that cause pain. Laura uses a mix of approaches tuned to the issue, so sessions feel tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Background and approach
Laura often works with people who are dealing with loss, abandonment, or attachment wounds. She also supports those facing life changes, chronic illness, caregiving stress, or questions about intimacy and identity. Discussions can cover both emotional patterns and everyday habits that affect wellbeing.
Sessions include short-term skill work and deeper emotional processing when that is helpful. Practical tools might include learning new ways to manage intense feelings, shifting unhelpful thoughts, or practicing mindful acceptance of difficult experiences. She explains techniques in plain language and gives simple exercises to try between meetings.
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, a person uses the site’s matching questionnaire and schedules according to Laura’s availability. This makes it possible to fit therapy into a busy day or a changing routine.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching acceptance and purposeful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for depression, eating concerns, and mood regulation by building practical skills and habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on how emotions shape relationships and intimacy, helping people understand and shift interaction patterns that create distance or conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest one or a mix of methods. This collaborative process helps find tools that fit the issue and the person’s everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and full interaction, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for check-ins, brief coaching, or step-by-step exercises between appointments. These options make it easier to keep consistent work going despite a busy schedule or changing routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English