About Laura
Laura Henckler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Maine who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers straightforward support for self-esteem, motivation, grief, eating concerns, ADHD, and relationship strain. Her work also includes parenting and career-related worries and issues like postpartum depression and compassion fatigue.
Laura draws on practical, skills-based approaches to help people manage difficult feelings and make concrete changes. Sessions focus on real-world steps - identifying what matters, building tools to handle strong emotions, and testing small experiments between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses methods that encourage clear thinking, values-driven action, and better communication with others. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Laura helps clients set goals and chooses techniques that match each person’s needs.
She aims to create a calm space where people can say what they feel and try new ways of coping without judgment. With 17 years of experience, Laura blends problem-solving with support when life feels overwhelming.
She can help when anxiety or depression gets in the way of daily life, when relationships need repair, or when someone is dealing with loss or a big transition. Clients typically work on skills for managing emotions, improving relationships, and making decisions that fit their values.
Laura explains options plainly and helps people practice changes between sessions so progress carries into everyday life.
How evidence-based tools fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and reduce distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and staying steady during crises; it can be useful for people who struggle with emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they’ll try techniques in sessions and adjust based on what helps most, so the plan evolves with progress.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, live chat allows short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, steady follow-up, and different ways to practice skills outside appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English