About Laura
Laura Hattrup is a licensed social worker who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, or life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. Many clients come when they want change but aren’t sure where to start.
She draws on 16 years of clinical experience and focuses on building practical skills. Sessions emphasize recognizing personal strengths and small steps that add up.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Laura uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns and try new behaviors.
She blends that with client-centered listening and mindfulness exercises that help calm busy minds. She often uses solution-focused and motivational strategies to set short-term goals and keep progress moving. That approach can help when someone needs concrete changes at work, with money worries, or in daily routines.
Laura explains techniques in simple terms and practices them together with the person in session. Laura aims to help people build resilience and improve everyday functioning. She encourages small experiments, habit changes, and realistic goals that fit each person’s life.
Her Kansas-based experience guides practical, down-to-earth support for people ready to make steady changes.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, mood, and daily functioning. These methods are easy to practice during video or phone sessions and useful for stress, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping with life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they try techniques, adjust pacing, and set short-term goals so progress feels manageable and relevant to real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people practice skills and get face-to-face feedback. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and simpler to fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or continuing momentum between appointments. These options make it easier to maintain consistent work on goals despite busy schedules or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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