Laura Duncan, LMSW

Laura Duncan, LMSW, offers a warm, client-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and difficult life changes. Laura aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful, so people can start making practical shifts sooner.

With nine years of experience, she draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to address relationship patterns and unhelpful thoughts. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill building, and short exercises that people can use between meetings. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing inform her way of listening and guiding clients toward clearer goals.

Laura pays attention to how past relationships shape current feelings and behavior. She helps people notice old patterns, test new ways of relating, and strengthen self-worth. Practical tools for managing mood and stress are paired with time to tell your story and make sense of it.

Her work also covers issues like intimacy-related concerns, body image, parenting stress, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, and career or caregiving burnout. She supports people facing identity questions, attachment wounds, and complicated grief with steady, paced care.

Clients can expect respectful conversation, clear suggestions, and collaborative goal-setting. Laura encourages small steps that add up to change and works alongside clients to track progress over time.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and close relationships influence feelings and behavior. In practice this means looking at patterns in relationships, naming those patterns, and trying new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going; sessions often include simple skills and experiments to change negative thinking and improve mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they address concrete problems while also honoring personal history and values.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people access a licensed professional from different locations, which can help maintain consistency in care during life transitions.