About Laura
Laura Clarke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon. She has four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people facing depression, self-esteem struggles, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also works with clients dealing with trauma, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, life changes, and ADHD.
She communicates in English and offers sessions in several online formats. Laura prefers a straightforward, collaborative style in sessions. She listens first, then helps people identify strengths and practical steps they can try between visits.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match the person's needs - some people want concrete tools, others need space to process feelings. She emphasizes clear goals and small, achievable changes. In therapy Laura uses a mix of methods tailored to each person.
She draws on cognitive techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, mindfulness and acceptance skills to lower reactivity, and emotion-focused work to improve connection and closeness. These approaches are chosen to fit the issue at hand, whether that is managing mood symptoms, addressing attachment concerns, or navigating changes.
Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, autism spectrum matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and relationship commitment problems. She also supports people exploring nontraditional sexual cultures and kink with a nonjudgmental stance. New clients can expect a gentle intake that covers history, current concerns, and goals.
Laura helps people set realistic steps and offers follow-up options through video, phone, chat, or messaging to keep momentum between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Laura draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters most and building actions that match those values, while also teaching skills for accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques to try. That plan can change over time as you learn what helps and what feels manageable in your day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussions and skill practice, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or a camera-free option is preferred, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between visits. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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