About Laura
Laura Small is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She writes simply and listens carefully so parents and busy adults can talk about what matters most. Laura brings ten years of clinical experience to each session.
Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps the client can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Laura draws on a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and reflective conversation. She uses straightforward tools to help people name patterns, test new behaviors, and cope with painful feelings. Therapy plans are shaped around what an individual needs and wants to change.
She has worked with people facing trauma, emotional abuse, career stress, parenting challenges, attention differences, and obsessive thoughts. Laura also supports clients dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and body image worries. Sessions may include problem-solving, exploring underlying patterns, and practicing new skills for communication and self-care.
Laura helps clients set small goals and track progress in ways that fit daily life. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Laura draws from cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. This approach focuses on practical skills for anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress. She also uses humanistic and psychodynamic-informed conversation to explore patterns that influence relationships and self-image, helping people understand where feelings come from and what they want to change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in early sessions, and adapt methods as needed to find a good fit together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for more in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, more frequent check-ins and can fit into busy schedules. These formats make it easier to receive ongoing support while balancing family, work, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English