Laura Disley
Compassionate counsellor for life changes
About Laura
Laura Disley helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and addiction. She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, sleep and eating issues, low self-esteem, ADHD and career worries. Laura works with LGBT concerns, intimacy-related issues and the wide practical fallout of life changes.
Laura describes the person as the expert in their own story. She adopts a respectful, listening-first approach and aims to build on each person's strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on what matters most to the individual that week. Her background includes ten years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That experience has brought work with people affected by abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiving stress and bereavement among many other issues.
Therapy sessions often mix short-term practical steps with space to reflect. Laura uses techniques drawn from client-centred work and solution-focused practices, alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing, to help people try different ways of coping. The pace and focus are shaped by what each person needs.
People can expect a calm, steady presence in sessions and straightforward talk about next steps. The aim is to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day challenges and to make clearer choices about what to change next.
What Laura works with
How Laura works
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Sessions & fees
Approach-led online counselling that fits your life
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor follows what the person brings to the room and helps them name what matters. This approach is useful for building confidence and making sense of difficult emotions.Solution-Focused Therapy looks at small practical steps and changes that can be tried straight away. It helps people who want clear, doable goals and quicker progress on specific problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress over time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree a plan. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging for convenience and flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and everyday life while keeping the focus on what the person wants to achieve.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
