Laura Ward, BACP

Laura Ward is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP credential. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or difficult life changes. She speaks English and welcomes international clients through the service.

Laura uses a gentle, person-focused way of working that helps people talk through what they are living with. She supports people who deal with emotional abuse, depression, bipolar challenges, anger, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with practical difficulties such as parenting pressures, career uncertainty, compassion fatigue and managing ADHD-related struggles.

Her work pays attention to how past experiences and family patterns shape current thoughts and everyday habits. Sessions aim to gently uncover unhelpful thinking and build more helpful day-to-day routines. Clients are invited to move at their own pace while learning small changes that can make daily life easier.

Laura says she brings warmth and empathy to sessions. She encourages people to notice strengths they already have and to use those strengths to make changes. This includes support for issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, body image, addiction, chronic illness and communication problems.

Practical aims in sessions include building resilience and self-compassion, improving connection and navigating grief or separation. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How these approaches shape online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on hearing the person’s experience and following their lead. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to talk through feelings and everyday struggles rather than being told what to do.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence moods and actions. It offers practical tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes in daily routines that can improve wellbeing.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and name strong emotions and the patterns that keep them stuck. It can be useful for improving connection and managing distress linked to attachment or loss.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs and preferences and will suggest which methods to try. Together they check what is working and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, for example by avoiding travel and allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break. It also allows people to choose a calmer time of day and to keep working on thinking habits between sessions. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking to ensure they suit your routine.