Laura Howard, BACP

Laura Howard is a counsellor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties and issues around intimacy. She works with people dealing with grief, depression, self-esteem struggles and challenges linked to parenting, career change and life transitions. Laura also supports people concerned about eating and body image, anger, and LGBT-related matters. Laura is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Laura uses a gentle, person-centred style in sessions. She draws on psychodynamic ideas about past patterns and attachment-based thinking to help people understand repeating relationship habits. Sessions typically begin by looking at whatever feels most urgent to the client, then map out small, practical steps to manage stress and strong emotions. She aims to create a calm space where someone can talk without feeling judged. Her background includes training in psychodynamic and humanistic approaches, and she has completed a certificate in adoption counselling. That additional training means she offers help to people affected by adoption and special guardianship orders, including birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees. She pays particular attention to attachment, shame, loss and identity issues. Laura describes her manner as warm and empathic. The first session is used to agree how to work together and to answer any questions about the counselling process. People can use that meeting to see whether her counselling style feels like a good fit. With five years’ experience, Laura works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time, and clients schedule according to her availability.

How her approaches guide online counselling

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. It can help people who notice repeating patterns in close relationships or who struggle with trust and closeness. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the session, with the counsellor offering empathy and non-judgemental listening. This approach is useful for building self-understanding, improving self-esteem and talking through life changes. Psychodynamic ideas help make sense of repeated feelings and behaviours by looking at past influences and unconscious patterns. This can be helpful for people who want to understand why they react in certain ways and break long-standing cycles. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will help people decide which elements suit their needs and goals, and that decision is made together as therapy progresses. The emphasis is on a collaborative process that adapts to what the person wants to achieve. If you are thinking about online therapy, check which session options are currently offered before booking. Confirm the available formats and then consider practical benefits: online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, save travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to keep continuity of care when routines change, while the therapist and client work together to set a structure that fits everyday life.