Laura Fontanet
Calm, person-centred therapy for emotional challenges
About Laura
Laura Fontanet is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She brings five years of clinical experience and offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She works in a person-centred way, focusing on empathy, acceptance and genuine understanding.
Sessions aim to help people talk through difficult feelings and make sense of life changes at their own pace. Laura adapts the pace and focus to what each person needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Laura also uses tools drawn from attachment theory and cognitive behavioural therapy, choosing techniques that fit the person and the issue. This can include looking at unhelpful thinking, strengthening relationships, or noticing how early experiences affect current patterns. Her areas of practice include grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction, ADHD, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting concerns and caregiver stress.
She also supports people facing identity questions, abandonment and adoption-related themes, chronic illness, codependency and complex trauma reactions. Sessions are available in English, Spanish, Catalan and Italian, and she works with people across the United Kingdom. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, aimed at helping people develop clearer choices and practical coping strategies.
To begin, someone simply completes the site questionnaire to match with her and then books sessions that suit their schedule. The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Laura commonly draws on person-centred work and attachment-based ideas during online sessions. Person-centred work focuses on creating a warm, understanding space where people can talk at their own pace, which can be achieved through video or phone conversations. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people notice how early connections shape current emotional responses, useful for issues like intimacy and grief.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people recognise and change unhelpful thinking and behaviours. CBT tools can be practised between sessions and reviewed during calls or messages, making them a good fit for a mix of live and text formats. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals, adjusting methods as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while still using established therapeutic methods.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
