About Laura
Laura Herp is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and related concerns. She brings twenty years of clinical experience and a calm, respectful presence to each session. She aims to make a hard first step feel manageable and supportive.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then shapes conversations and goals to match each person’s needs. She uses mindfulness and parts-based work to help people notice what’s happening inside and respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on building skills that fit day-to-day life. This can include grounding exercises, learning to name difficult feelings, and making small changes that reduce overwhelm. She also helps people who are coping with grief, relationship difficulties, eating concerns, parenting stress, or workplace strain.
Over two decades of practice have included helping people address compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and intimacy-related worries. She emphasizes clear, respectful communication and practical steps rather than jargon. The goal is steady progress you can feel.
Laura is licensed in Kentucky as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW. She works with people across a range of life stages and situations, tailoring sessions to what each person needs right now.
How mindfulness and parts work translate to online care
Mindfulness Therapy focuses on simple attention skills and present-moment noticing. It teaches practical exercises to reduce reactivity and calm the body, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood struggles. Internal Family Systems, or parts work, helps people identify different inner voices or roles and learn kinder ways to relate to them, useful for trauma, addiction patterns, and self-criticism.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with clients about what feels most useful and tailor the methods to each person’s goals. Decisions about which exercises to try are made together, and approaches can be adjusted as progress is observed.
Online sessions make it possible to work with these methods from many places. Video calls allow guided mindfulness practices and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be helpful when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and flexible pacing to fit work or family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English