Laura Brown, BACP

Laura Brown is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, eating and food-related issues, depression and career difficulties. She aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity, and she adapts her approach to each person's needs.

Her practice focuses on clear, practical conversations. Sessions look at what is happening now and what can change to make daily life easier. She uses techniques that help people rethink unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and reconnect with their values.

Laura draws on client-centred methods to create a warm, listening space where clients set the pace and topics. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify thoughts and behaviours that maintain distress, and mindfulness tools to help people stay present and reduce overwhelm.

People come to her for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, sleeping problems, anger, body image and compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, fertility or fatherhood issues, and the stresses of first responder work.

When someone reaches out, Laura tailors a plan to their situation. That may mean short-term problem-focused work or longer support to process deeper difficulties. She encourages practical steps between sessions and reviews progress together.

How her approaches work online

Laura uses client-centred work to place the person's experience at the heart of therapy, offering a listening space where clients guide the agenda and pace. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support, validation and a place to make sense of difficult feelings.

She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing new ways of responding. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and patterns that keep people stuck.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work together with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That collaboration means sessions can be adjusted as progress is reviewed and priorities change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is helpful for a face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing, reflective contact between sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.