About Laura
Laura Turner is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She works with adults navigating life changes and supports those trying to build motivation and confidence. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aimed at practical steps that fit daily life.
With six years of clinical experience, she blends skillful talk therapy with hands-on strategies. Sessions often focus on identifying small changes that create momentum, like shifting unhelpful thoughts or trying brief behavioral experiments.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to reduce distress and increase emotional balance. Laura also brings attention to specific concerns such as blended family issues, veteran and armed forces challenges, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. She tailors work to young adults and people rebuilding self-love after difficult experiences.
The emphasis is on clarifying goals and practicing techniques between sessions. People meet her through online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. That variety makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use methods that suit personal preferences.
Laura helps clients figure out which format and approach will work best. Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment. She aims to make the next steps clear and manageable for anyone ready to begin.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Laura uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thought patterns and change behaviors that keep them stuck. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and obsessive thoughts because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical exercises. Mindfulness therapy is another core part of her work, teaching simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness; these techniques help with stress, impulse control, and emotional regulation.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals, try a few methods, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Sessions are tailored to the person's needs and preferences rather than following a fixed script, and progress is reviewed regularly to refine the plan.
Online therapy with Laura is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. This range helps clients fit therapy into busy lives and choose the format that best supports their goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English