Laura Howard
Gentle listening, exploring patterns, building clarity
About Laura
Laura Howard offers calm, attentive support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low mood. She is named Laura and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, bringing five years' practical experience to sessions. She aims to provide a listening space where clients can feel understood and make sense of difficult feelings.
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual. Laura combines elements of psychodynamic thinking with a client-centred way of working to explore patterns, relationships and how past experiences shape present life.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to suit each person and to build a clearer sense of needs and choices. She has a particular interest in adoption and foster care matters, and recently completed a certificate in adoption counselling.
This means she can support people affected by adoption and special guardianship arrangements, including birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees, on issues such as attachment, identity and loss. Laura also works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, LGBT issues, eating and body image, anger and self-esteem.
Practical steps and reflective conversations are used together to help people manage change and cope with life transitions. In the first session she and the client review what to focus on and how to work together. The aim is to find a pace and approach that feels right, so therapy becomes a manageable part of everyday life rather than an added pressure.
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Sessions & fees
Approach and practical online therapy options
Laura uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand closeness, trust and recurring conflicts in relationships and can be useful when working with issues of identity or loss.She also draws on client-centred therapy which focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. This approach aims to help people feel heard and to develop their own solutions at a comfortable pace.
Deciding which approach fits best is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to match methods to the person's needs, goals and preferences, and will review progress together as therapy continues.
Online therapy here is offered by registered or accredited professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations when seeing facial cues is helpful. Phone sessions can be better when less bandwidth is available or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins or flexible support around a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
