About Surilla
Surilla Lawrence is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on clear, practical help. She uses straightforward conversation to address stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns. Her approach centers on compassion and respect so people feel heard and understood.
Surilla has seven years of experience working with issues that include trauma, addiction, LGBTQ concerns, parenting stress, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing career strain, compassion fatigue, and complex feelings like guilt or emptiness.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past attachments shape current relationships. Sessions are tailored to each person. Surilla draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client.
She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thought patterns. Emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust. Her style is collaborative and practical.
She helps people set small, achievable goals and practice concrete skills between sessions. This can include emotion regulation tools from dialectical behavior therapy and communication strategies for relationship challenges. People often come for help after a big loss, a stressful life change, or when longstanding patterns feel unmanageable.
Surilla explains options plainly and works with each person to build a plan that fits their life and needs.
How attachment and skill-based approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can use this work to identify patterns in communication and build new ways of connecting with others.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client’s needs. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can find their own solutions and set meaningful goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In virtual sessions this often includes simple exercises, homework, and tracking thoughts between meetings.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest strategies that fit day-to-day life. That collaboration helps refine the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people send short updates, practice skills, or check in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and medical appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English