Laura Spagnuolo
Compassionate online counsellor helping people regain choice
About Laura
Laura Spagnuolo is a counsellor registered with BACP who works online with individuals. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy worries, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with eating, sleeping, anger, or self-esteem. Laura speaks both English and Italian and offers sessions to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Her way of working is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on making sense of what feels stuck and on practical steps to reclaim choice and control.
Background and approach
She listens without judgement and helps people notice patterns that keep causing pain. The aim is to help people feel more able to manage everyday pressures and difficult emotions. Laura draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current behaviour.
She also uses client-centred principles that place the person’s experience at the heart of the work. Existential themes are explored too, such as meaning, freedom, and responsibility, when they feel relevant to the issue. In a typical session she will help identify unhelpful patterns and support decisions about which behaviours to change.
The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Over time the work aims to reduce overwhelm and increase a sense of agency in relationships and life choices. She has four years of counselling experience and works online using video, phone, live chat or messaging.
Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
What Laura works with
How Laura works
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Listed by Laura among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Online approaches that focus on relationships and meaning
Laura uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at where emotional needs come from and how those needs affect connections with others and with oneself.She also uses client-centred principles which place the person’s experience at the centre of the work. That means listening closely, reflecting back what matters, and helping each person find their own answers rather than imposing solutions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and life circumstances and together they will decide which ideas to focus on. This is a collaborative process and can change as the work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging for flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be useful when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or who want ongoing, brief support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
| 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian
