About Laura
Laura Noel is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and parenting-related stress. She listens without judgment and helps clients figure out what matters to them. Her goal is to help people build clearer goals and practical steps they can try between sessions.
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage symptoms and move toward their goals. Sessions are conversational and focused on what’s useful in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Clients can expect work on coping skills, communication, and setting boundaries when needed. Her background includes seven years of clinical experience helping people cope with grief, eating and body image issues, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing bipolar mood challenges, anger, and life transitions.
Attachment-related struggles, abandonment, and family of origin issues are addressed with attention to patterns that repeat in relationships. Therapeutic methods often include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, and client-centered techniques. These are used flexibly based on each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
The focus is on small, practical changes that add up over time. Laura holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) in North Carolina. She offers sessions in English and works with adults who want a collaborative, down-to-earth approach to therapy.
For those juggling busy schedules, she provides several online session formats to make care more accessible.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. This approach can help with depression, anxiety, and managing ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. DBT techniques are useful for strong emotions, relationship conflicts, and impulse control difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person's life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is a good option for a face-to-face feel and deeper work, while phone calls can fit a quick check-in and use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging work well for short updates, skill practice between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and maintain progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English