About Vanessa
Dr. Vanessa Laurent is a Connecticut and Rhode Island licensed psychologist with nine years of clinical experience. She combines practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her approach is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people make small, usable changes in daily life. She often uses cognitive behavioral strategies to break down unhelpful thinking and build new routines. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people decide what matters most and take steps toward those values.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when strong emotions or impulsivity get in the way of goals. Sessions focus on clear goals and hands-on practice. Dr.
Laurent helps clients try new behaviors between meetings and checks what works. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, career and financial strain, and issues such as trauma, intimacy, and self-esteem.
Her background includes work with a wide range of life situations, including adoption and foster care, blended family issues, infertility and fertility stress, immigration-related concerns, and complications from separation or divorce. She makes space for clients dealing with isolation, commitment or trust issues, and body image or sexual intimacy difficulties. Dr.
Laurent offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Sessions are conducted in English and international clients may be seen. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to name their values and take small steps toward them even when emotions are difficult; it can help with life transitions, motivation, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that are useful when strong feelings or impulsive behaviors interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Laurent collaborates with clients to choose and adjust methods based on goals, what feels realistic, and how each person responds. She encourages trying practical exercises between sessions and checking progress together.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and skill coaching, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and text or chat can help with quick coaching, ongoing reflection, or check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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