About Laurie
Laurie Pittman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She brings 12 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and major life changes. Laurie aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can talk through immediate concerns and set practical goals.
She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people see how thoughts and actions connect.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with emotional regulation and stress. Laurie adapts strategies to each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed method. Her background includes more than a decade working in classrooms before moving into counseling.
That teaching experience influences her clear, step-by-step style. Clients can expect explanations of why a technique is suggested and simple tools to try between sessions. Laurie emphasizes collaboration when setting goals.
She works from a strengths-based perspective, helping people notice what is already working and build on it. Conversations focus on practical steps the person can take right away. Areas she commonly addresses include relationship and family stress, parenting concerns, communication problems, codependency, caregiver strain, trauma and abuse, eating and intimacy-related issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Laurie offers different session formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit various needs. People who choose to work with her start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How Laurie Uses Practical Therapies Online
Laurie commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help manage stress and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Laurie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try. That plan is reviewed and adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling fit into busy lives. Video lets people see visual cues and work more interactively. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it possible to receive consistent therapeutic work without major travel or scheduling barriers.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Louisiana
- Languages
- English