About Laura
Laura Wheeler is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting or caregiver strain. She draws on eight years of counseling experience to listen closely and help clients find practical ways forward. Laura emphasizes clients' strengths and works with each person to set realistic goals they can reach.
Her work often focuses on attention challenges linked to ADD/ADHD, including difficulties with impulsivity, focus, and memory.
Background and approach
She helps people break problems into manageable steps and develop skills to improve daily functioning. Sessions look at patterns that make things harder and build routines that support clearer thinking. Laura uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
That can include cognitive behavior strategies to reframe unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior techniques to manage intense emotions, and reading-based methods to reinforce session work. She adjusts tools to match a client's pace and preferences. Her style is straightforward and collaborative.
She treats clients as the experts on their lives and offers practical options to try between sessions. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Clients meet via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what fits their schedule.
Laura supports people who want to carry skills into daily life and work toward clearer goals and more stable routines.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Laura often uses cognitive behavior approaches that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. This method helps with anxiety, low mood, and everyday problems by changing patterns of thinking and behavior.She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These tools are useful when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life. Reading assignments and self-guided exercises may be used to reinforce session work between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist and client work together to pick techniques that match needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as progress is made or circumstances change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when a faster reply fits your day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English