About Vasiliki
Vasiliki Labonte is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addictions. She focuses on practical ways to reduce symptoms and restore everyday functioning. Her work also addresses self-esteem and a range of related concerns like attachment problems, codependency, and body image.
Labonte uses straightforward, collaborative sessions so clients know what to expect. She listens first, then helps people set short-term goals and small steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Many meetings involve learning coping skills, testing new behaviors, and tracking what does and doesn’t work. Her approach draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses attachment-focused methods to look at how earlier relationships affect current struggles.
Emotion-focused ideas are brought in when feelings need careful exploration and naming. With six years of clinical experience, Labonte has helped people with complex presentations that include trauma, addiction, dissociation, and personality-related patterns. She aims to make therapy practical and understandable rather than technical or overwhelming.
Sessions are described in everyday terms and paced to each client’s needs. Labonte practices in Louisiana as an LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor. She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats to increase access.
She encourages a collaborative relationship and supports people working toward clearer thinking and steadier emotion. Many clients begin by identifying one or two urgent problems, then build skills and insight over time. Labonte emphasizes small, achievable change and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and ways of relating. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns, practice new responses, and strengthen emotional regulation in day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change them. In an online session, clients often work on thought records, behavioral experiments, and practical homework they can try between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT skills and adding attachment-focused or emotion-focused work later. Decisions are guided by what the client needs and what feels most helpful in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing skills with real-time feedback. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing support, brief check-ins, or step-by-step skill coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to continue care when travel would otherwise interrupt it.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English