Laura Mitchell
Compassionate counsellor for stress and relationships
About Laura
Laura Mitchell is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has four years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and life changes. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person’s pace.
Her style is open and non-judgemental. Sessions are a space to talk about worries, addictive behaviours, loss, relationship strain, depression, or parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters to the person and helps them find clearer ways to cope. Laura uses client-centred methods that focus on the person’s own goals. She also draws on the Gottman Method when relationship patterns and communication need more direct attention.
These approaches guide practical conversation rather than a rigid set of exercises. She supports people dealing with trauma, attachment difficulties, ADHD, eating concerns and anger, among other issues. Her additional focus includes matters such as bereavement, divorce and blended family strain, caregiver stress, and long-term health challenges like cancer.
Sessions can include planning small steps, practising new ways to speak about problems, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. The aim is to give steady support while clients try new responses to difficult situations.
What Laura works with
How Laura works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches and online therapy options that fit everyday life
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and goals. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is helpful for anxiety, stress and building confidence in decision-making.The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and patterns in close relationships. It offers practical ways to change how people argue, connect and rebuild trust. This method can be useful when communication problems or commitment issues cause repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative choice can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy in video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and suit shorter check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief updates or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving and daily commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
