Laura Fontanet, BACP

Laura Fontanet practices a person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of therapy. She believes people can find insight and direction when they are met with empathy, acceptance and honest understanding. Laura offers a calm, respectful space for clients to talk at their own pace and make sense of what they are feeling.

With five years of experience, Laura blends person-centred work with practical ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based thinking. She draws on emotionally-focused and existential perspectives when they suit a person’s concerns. This mix helps tailor sessions to what each person needs in the moment.

Laura has particular experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and identity-related difficulties. She also helps with stress, coping with life changes, grief, intimacy-related issues, relationship and family concerns, and addictions. Additional focus areas include parenting strain, chronic illness and codependency issues.

Sessions may include talking through difficult memories, noticing unhelpful thought patterns, practising grounding or mindfulness strategies, and looking at relationship patterns influenced by attachment. Laura aims for practical steps that can be tried between sessions when useful.

She works in English, Spanish, Catalan and Italian, and practices from the United Kingdom. Laura holds BACP registration, which appears after her name as BACP. For anyone who prefers to begin online, she offers video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Laura primarily uses a person-centred approach, which focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions. In online sessions this means the counsellor gives space to tell your story and reflects what she hears so you can notice new perspectives.

She also uses ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and to try practical exercises. CBT techniques online can include checking thought patterns, trying small behavioural experiments and learning simple coping skills to use between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you early on about your needs, goals and what feels most comfortable, and adapt methods as you go. Clients and therapist decide together which ideas to keep using and which to change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and text or chat can suit those who prefer to write or need brief, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel or family commitments while still accessing registered or accredited professionals and therapists.