Laura-Anne Mervyn
Supportive counsellor for life changes
About Laura-Anne
Laura-Anne Mervyn helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and loss. She supports those coping with family conflict, chronic health challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life changes. She also works with people dealing with addictions, depression, bipolar difficulties, and self-esteem struggles.
Laura-Anne is based in the United Kingdom and has nine years of professional experience. She holds BACP accreditation which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential. Laura-Anne works in a straightforward, person-focused way.
Background and approach
She starts by listening to what matters most and what a person feels they need. Her approach builds on the strengths someone already has, rather than assuming they lack resources. Sessions aim to make decisions and next steps clearer, one small change at a time.
Her practice covers many concerns, including grief, parenting strain, sleeping and eating problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people with body image issues, communication problems, codependency and commitment worries. Sexual orientation and identity questions are included under LGBT support and she can address kink and alternative sexual culture matters with respect.
Clients can expect an open, non-judgemental space to talk through practical problems and emotional pain. Therapy conversations often focus on understanding patterns, trying new ways of relating, and building coping tools for daily life. Laura-Anne encourages realistic goals and checks progress together during sessions.
Her background includes work with school counselling and long-term health conditions, which informs how she helps people juggle life demands. If someone wants a collaborative, listening-led approach, Laura-Anne offers that framed around the person’s own priorities and pace.
What Laura-Anne works with
How Laura-Anne works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care and online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person rather than the problem. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and helps a person notice their own strengths and choices. This approach is useful for worries about relationships, self-esteem, grief and making life changes because it supports people to find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels helpful and will adapt methods to match their goals and preferences. That means working together to try different ways of talking and practical steps until something fits.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and have a longer conversation. Phone sessions suit someone who needs a simpler connection or has limited internet bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
