About Laura
Laura Lathan is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She offers straightforward support and practical tools so clients can handle strong emotions and daily challenges. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where parents can also get help balancing their own stress while supporting a child.
Laura focuses on teaching skills that make everyday life easier. She uses clear techniques to change thinking patterns and to manage intense feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to leave people with specific steps they can try between meetings. Her background includes three years of clinical experience working with mood concerns, behavioral struggles, and the ups and downs that follow major life changes. That experience shapes a problem-solving approach that stays grounded in real life.
She pays attention to how attachment and communication patterns influence relationships and coping. In sessions Laura addresses issues such as caregiver stress, impulsivity, isolation, and social anxiety. She also supports people dealing with loss, separation, and shifting life purpose.
The work often blends skill practice, emotional regulation, and clearer communication strategies. People can expect a collaborative tone. Laura mixes professional methods with each person's knowledge of their own life.
The goal is for clients to feel more capable and in charge of their next steps.
Practical approaches for online skill building
Laura often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts. That method breaks problems into small steps and gives concrete homework to practice new ways of thinking. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation skills and ways to respond differently to stress and intense feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and daily life. Together they track what helps and adjust techniques as needed so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for longer conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let people share thoughts between appointments and keep momentum on skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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