Laura Westbrook

Laura Westbrook, LPC, uses a person-centered approach that centers on empathy and connection. She aims to create a calm, accepting space where people can talk through their concerns and find practical steps forward. Humor and everyday resources like books, shows, or music are often part of sessions to help clients relate to their work and feel more at ease.

Her background includes work in nonprofit settings focused on addictions and trauma, and she has seven years of clinical experience. That work sparked her interest in improving mental health care access, especially for people affected by the criminal justice system. She has worked with people of different genders and ages and with a range of life circumstances.

Westbrook often helps with anger, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports clients facing chronic illness, HIV, attachment and abandonment issues, and challenges around substance use. Sessions aim to help clients manage stress, build self-esteem, and navigate life changes.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, mindfulness, existential reflection, and motivational interviewing, while keeping the client’s goals central. Sessions are collaborative - the client’s perspective guides the work and the therapist offers tools and questions to move things forward.

Laura trained in several states and brings personal experience of living in different regions to her practice. She uses everyday language, listens for what matters most, and focuses on realistic strategies clients can try between sessions.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships affect feelings and behavior. In sessions this may mean talking about patterns from early relationships and how they show up now, which can help with anger, intimacy, and trust issues.

Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s lead to find practical next steps and coping strategies.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and decide together what to try. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques like mindfulness exercises or motivational interviewing to the person’s life.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also make it simpler to use resources discussed in sessions, like watching a short clip or doing a mindfulness practice between meetings.