Laura Steele
Supportive counsellor for stress and identity concerns
About Laura
Laura Steele welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She aims to make early conversations straightforward and calm. Laura speaks plainly and focuses on what matters most to each person she meets.
She works with people dealing with self-esteem, motivation, relationships, and issues related to LGBT identity. Laura also supports those navigating attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness or pain, and changes after separation or divorce.
Background and approach
Other areas she helps with include communication problems, codependency, gender dysphoria, and guilt or shame. Her approach begins by listening to the client's priorities and tailoring conversations to those needs. Sessions are shaped around practical steps and small goals that suit daily life.
Laura keeps things respectful and sensitive, matching pace to what each person can manage. With five years of professional experience and registration with BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - she brings steady, thoughtful support to the work. She encourages people to try small changes first and to notice what helps.
She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit their timing. Laura aims to be a steady partner as people work toward clearer thinking and more manageable days.
Beyond conversation, the process includes reviewing progress and adjusting plans when needed. Laura focuses on practical coping strategies and clearer communication so clients can carry change into everyday life.
What Laura works with
Sessions & fees
Practical approaches for online therapy and finding the right fit
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and everyday change. One common approach she uses involves helping people recognise unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behaviour changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This helps with stress, low confidence and repetitive worries.Another approach concentrates on relationship and attachment patterns. It helps people understand how past experiences shape close connections and offers ways to try different communication and boundaries that feel safer and more effective. This is useful for relationship strain, codependency and attachment concerns.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods if something does not feel helpful. The emphasis is on practical tools that fit the client's life and on reviewing progress together.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for ongoing support between appointments. These options offer flexibility so people can fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
