Laura Craven
Integrative counsellor focusing on practical support
About Laura
Laura Craven is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to tailor therapy to each person. She brings an open, genuine style to sessions and aims to create trust and respect from the start. Her work is grounded in partnership with the person seeking support.
With an integrative counselling degree awarded with first-class honours, Laura draws on several therapeutic ideas to meet different needs. Sessions might involve talking things through, learning practical strategies, or trying creative exercises such as journalling and mindfulness.
Background and approach
She may also include psychoeducation to help someone see their situation from a new angle. Laura has three years of experience and has worked with grief and loss, various types of trauma, and people who have experienced domestic violence. She also helps people facing work-related stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship worries.
The focus is on understanding the immediate problem and finding manageable steps forward. She treats people with sensitivity and respect, aiming to promote autonomy alongside support. Sessions are adapted to what each person prefers and needs, with an emphasis on clear, practical work where helpful.
Laura encourages questions and open conversation about how therapy is going. If someone is unsure what to expect, Laura suggests starting with a short conversation to explain options and plan a first session. That initial step is presented as part of the process of finding the right way to work together.
What Laura works with
Sessions & fees
How integrative approaches work online
Laura uses an integrative counselling approach that mixes talking therapy with practical techniques. That can mean using reflective conversation to understand a problem, combined with journalling or mindfulness exercises to build coping skills and manage stress. These tools suit issues like anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and trauma.She also includes psychoeducation when helpful, explaining how certain patterns of thinking or behaviour develop and what small steps can change them. This helps people make sense of their experiences and try out different ways of responding to difficult feelings.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which methods feel most useful for their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as therapy progresses so it remains practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat are good for ongoing check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
