About Laura
Laura Sternberg is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She practices from Missouri and draws on several therapeutic approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than labels or jargon.
She pays close attention to how a person makes meaning of their life. That can look like talking through painful memories, sorting out relationship patterns, or addressing feelings of shame and isolation.
Background and approach
Therapy may include short-term goals and longer work on identity and purpose. Her style blends direct conversation with tools people can use between sessions. Mindfulness techniques help manage intense emotions and reduce rumination.
Solution-focused ideas support small, achievable changes that add up over time. For people who carry trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be part of the process to reduce the emotional weight of difficult memories. Narrative work helps rewrite unhelpful stories people tell themselves about who they are.
Laura has eight years of clinical experience as an LPC. She also offers help around caregiving stress, grief, career strain, addictions, and issues tied to attachment and abandonment. Sessions are conducted in English and tailored to the individual’s priorities.
How these approaches work online
Existential Therapy helps people examine meaning, values, and life choices. Online sessions using this approach often focus on clarifying priorities, facing choices, and reducing guilt or emptiness by exploring what matters most.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a way to reduce the emotional charge of traumatic memories. In teletherapy it involves guided recall alongside bilateral stimulation to help memories feel less overwhelming and to allow more adaptive perspectives to emerge.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and short-circuit intense emotional reactions. These skills can be practiced during sessions and between appointments to build steadier ground for coping.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and history, and together they will try methods that fit and adjust them over time. Clients have a say in pacing and focus throughout the work.
Online formats offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls support face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or not being on camera is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support more manageable during busy weeks. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments without extra travel.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English