About Laura
Laura Pascal is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She brings 20 years of experience and a calm, practical way of working that aims to make progress feel manageable. People come to her for help with parenting strain, relationship concerns, career decisions, and questions about life purpose.
She keeps sessions focused and approachable. Conversations are centered on what matters to the client and on clear next steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools to reduce overwhelm, strengthen coping skills, and improve communication in everyday situations. Her background includes long experience supporting people facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and the strain that first responders and veterans can face. She also works with those navigating divorce, blended family challenges, and aging-related issues.
Her work includes attention to LGBT concerns and compassion fatigue for helping professionals. Clinically she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. Those approaches are adapted to each person’s needs and goals rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Laura practices in New Jersey as an LPC and guides people toward steady, practical changes that fit their daily life.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead to identify what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the work toward their personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and offers simple, practical exercises to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist and client together decide which methods fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning may mix listening-centered work with CBT exercises and mindfulness practices to match what is most useful in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people read facial cues and have a more conversational session, phone can be quicker when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are useful for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent with their daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English