About Laurie
Laurie Carlton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more capable when life feels overwhelming. Laurie listens first, then helps clients notice patterns and try small changes that add up over time.
Her work centers on common struggles such as anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction concerns, anger, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at clear, usable tools you can try between sessions. Laurie uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage emotions and improve daily functioning. She breaks down strategies into simple steps and practices that fit into a busy life.
Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviors, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. She values a collaborative style and treats clients as partners in the process. Laurie encourages small experiments and practical homework rather than long lectures, so progress feels tangible.
Her tone is direct but warm, with focus on what works for each person. People who prefer clear guidance, short-term skill-building, and a problem-solving focus tend to do well with her style. Laurie aims to make therapy a useful part of everyday life, not an added burden.
How Laurie Uses Evidence-Based Skills Online
Laurie draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot and test unhelpful thoughts. CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress issues.She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style skills can be helpful when strong emotions or impulsivity get in the way of daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Laurie will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person’s needs. She checks in on what’s working and adjusts the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let clients choose what fits their schedule. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or messaging work for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care while balancing work, school, or family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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