About Laura
Laura Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She brings five years of clinical experience and a warm, steady manner to sessions. Her background includes work with people facing addiction, trauma, grief, relationship stress, and a wide range of life changes.
She favors a practical, collaborative style. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill building, and gentle reflection. Laura aims to help people name what feels hard, find small steps that work, and practice new ways of coping between sessions.
Background and approach
Her approach blends several evidence-based methods with a client-centered foundation. That means Laura listens first, then tailors tools from cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and emotion-regulation strategies. Sessions often include behavioral experiments, values-based planning, and problem-solving for everyday challenges.
Laura has experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also addresses attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and multicultural concerns. Her work includes helping clients cope with life transitions, grief, and the emotional fallout of disaster.
Outside of work she enjoys time with family and her dogs, outdoor rides in the camper, and ATV/UTV trail outings. She approaches therapy as a team effort and aims to make sessions understandable and useful. If someone wants straightforward help to move forward, she focuses on practical steps and steady support.
Practical approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and getting unstuck when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and helps people understand how early bonds shape current connections and reactions, which can be helpful for intimacy issues and family-related stress.Laura treats selecting the right approach as a shared process. She starts by listening to what the person wants to change, then explains options and tries methods together. Over time she adjusts techniques based on what proves most helpful for the client's goals and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is good for deeper conversations and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in, and live chat or messaging suit quick reflections or ongoing support between sessions. These formats allow flexibility for people juggling work, family, or travel while keeping therapy practical and consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English