Laura Turba
Person-centred counsellor for life’s hard moments
About Laura
Laura Turba is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She describes her work as person-centred, meeting people where they are and moving at a pace that feels manageable. Laura seeks to help clients face difficult experiences and find ways to cope that fit their life.
She has three years of experience working across a variety of settings and with many different presenting issues. That background means she is familiar with assessment tools and with supporting people through severe concerns such as self-harm, sexual abuse, and childhood trauma.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasises practical steps alongside emotional understanding. Sessions aim to keep the person as the focus. Laura helps people name what they are feeling and decide on small, realistic steps forward.
Conversations can be direct or gentle, depending on what someone needs in the moment. Common themes she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and relationship concerns. She also works on issues like grief, intimacy, eating concerns, anger, career change and coping with life transitions.
Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment wounds, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress and long-term illness, body image and codependency. She uses a blend of approaches to suit the person and the problem. Laura offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Sessions run via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and international clients are accepted.
What Laura works with
How Laura works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, empathic space where the client leads the pace of sessions. Online this means the counsellor follows what the client brings and helps them set small, manageable goals for change. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work through key emotional patterns that affect relationships and self-worth. In remote sessions the work centres on naming feelings and practising new ways of responding in day-to-day life. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build moment-to-moment coping skills; these techniques adapt well to short exercises during video or text exchanges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and then suggest one or a blend of approaches. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video sessions suit deeper conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
