- Client-centered care
- CBT and DBT skills
- Depression and anxiety
About Laura
Laura Phen is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She creates a calm, welcoming space where people can talk about anxiety, relationships, trauma, intimacy concerns, and depression. She invites clients to bring what feels most important and works together on what matters now.
Her approach centers on listening closely and tailoring practical steps to each person. Laura uses client-centered methods to make sure people feel heard. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Laura includes skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. Those skills focus on managing intense feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Over her career she has supported people facing grief, career stress, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar concerns, ADHD, chronic illness, and post-traumatic stress. She also offers coaching around life purpose and communication challenges. Her additional focus areas include issues such as abandonment, codependency, isolation, and veteran-related concerns.
Laura is licensed as an LPC in Arizona and Oregon and works from South Dakota. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
Her approach centers on listening closely and tailoring practical steps to each person. Laura uses client-centered methods to make sure people feel heard. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Laura includes skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. Those skills focus on managing intense feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Over her career she has supported people facing grief, career stress, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar concerns, ADHD, chronic illness, and post-traumatic stress. She also offers coaching around life purpose and communication challenges. Her additional focus areas include issues such as abandonment, codependency, isolation, and veteran-related concerns.
Laura is licensed as an LPC in Arizona and Oregon and works from South Dakota. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.