La Rue De Vries , AASW

La Rue De Vries is an AASW counsellor with seven years' experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and understood. She writes simply and invites people to take small steps toward change.

La Rue focuses on practical ways to build confidence and motivation. She helps people who have experienced trauma and abuse to name what happened and to find safer ways to cope. Sessions are conversational and paced to suit each person’s needs.

Her approach draws on therapies that help people notice thoughts, learn skills and reconnect with what matters. La Rue will often explore values, emotional patterns and communication habits so goals feel useful and relevant. She works alongside clients rather than directing them.

La Rue also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns and caregiver stress. She is experienced with chronic pain, illness and disability and with the isolation that can come with those challenges.

People who prefer a straightforward, warm style tend to find her approach helpful. She encourages practical experiments between sessions and checks in about what is and isn’t working. Her work is collaborative and aims to help people find more options for coping and relating.

Approaches that suit online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It uses simple exercises and values work to guide choices and reduce getting stuck in worry or avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and practising new ways of thinking and acting; it is often useful for anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early experiences shape current reactions, which can help with trust and communication issues.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Techniques can be adjusted as therapy progresses so sessions remain relevant and practical.

Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging offer flexibility for different lifestyles. Video can mirror an in-person conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving or health routines and to keep momentum between meetings.