Laura Edwards, BACP

Laura Edwards welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or difficult life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to help each person find small, practical steps forward. Laura meets people where they are and focuses on what matters most to them right now.

She uses a blend of approaches that suit the person in front of her rather than a single fixed method. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build clearer thinking, steadier emotions and more reliable coping skills. Laura emphasises simple strategies that can be practised between sessions.

Laura holds BACP accreditation, which reflects professional standards in the United Kingdom. She has seven years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, attention differences, and issues around identity and intimacy. This background helps her tailor sessions to the problems people bring.

Her work often includes techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas to improve relationships with self and others, and skills drawn from dialectical behaviour therapy to manage strong feelings. She adapts these to the pace a person needs.

People can expect short-term practical tools alongside space to talk about pain and loss. Laura accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. She supports people who want clear, down-to-earth help for living a steadier life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries or repeated conflict to understand patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions and uses empathic listening to help people feel heard and make their own choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Laura works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, pace and preferences. She may blend elements from different approaches so the work feels useful and realistic for everyday life.

Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats offer flexibility for appointments, shorter check-ins between meetings, and ways to keep practising skills when life gets busy.