Laura Thompson, LPC

Laura Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of practice in New Jersey. She helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship shifts, grief, and trauma. Her work often focuses on day-to-day challenges like sleep, eating, parenting stress, and managing mood changes such as depression or bipolar symptoms.

She shapes sessions around each person's needs. Conversations are straightforward and practical. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, achievable steps toward change.

Her background includes long experience with social anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She also supports people facing body image concerns, infidelity and divorce, domestic violence aftermath, and addiction-related struggles. Veterans and those connected to armed forces issues are included in her focus areas.

Therapy draws on several approaches to suit different concerns. Laura uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to guide conversations and skill building. She does not promise quick fixes but emphasizes steady progress.

Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through painful moments and figure out practical next steps. Sessions aim to increase coping skills, reduce overwhelming feelings, and support clearer decision making about relationships, work, and daily life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then identifying values and taking action that matches those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for panic, social anxiety, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and naming emotions in relationships and can help people improve how they connect and handle conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. Sessions may blend tools from different approaches so clients get what helps them most.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the profile does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, and letting people choose quieter surroundings for talking. Licensed professionals can also adapt exercises and worksheets for remote use, so practical skill-building continues between meetings.