Laura Richardson

Laura Richardson is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage everyday stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things feel straightforward and practical.

She uses a client-centered way of working that lets people set the pace and priorities. That means sessions emphasize what matters most to the person in front of her. She combines that with cognitive behavioral ideas when habits, thinking patterns, or coping skills need to change.

Common concerns she addresses include family and parenting challenges, anger management, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship problems. Additional areas she supports are attachment and abandonment issues, blended family strains, caregiver stress, and problems linked to family of origin.

In session she helps people develop calmer responses, clearer communication, and practical steps for daily life. She also works with issues such as codependency, commitment struggles, control issues, guilt, shame, and forgiveness. Her style is steady and straightforward, focusing on skills you can use between meetings.

Clients who want to work on career questions, cope with life changes, or recover from mood shifts like bipolar symptoms will find an emphasis on real-world strategies. To begin, she helps people identify small, manageable goals and builds from there.

Client-centered and CBT approaches for remote care

Laura uses a client-centered approach that places the person's goals and preferences first, letting the client steer what to focus on. This approach helps when someone needs a space to sort feelings, set priorities, and decide the next steps.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, and to build concrete coping skills. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, stress, anger management, depression, and for making small behavior changes that improve daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they test tools, adjust strategies, and pick practical steps that feel sustainable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to schedule appointments around work or family demands, avoid travel time, and keep therapy consistent during life changes. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a quick adjustment is needed, or longer sessions when tackling complex issues. Ask about available session structures when you start so meetings fit into everyday life.