Laura Calabro , HCPC

Laura Calabro is a counsellor registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, and she brings 14 years of practice across the UK and Italy. She draws on her international background to help people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Laura speaks English and Italian and aims to make first steps feel manageable.

She has worked in NHS settings in the United Kingdom and in private practice in Italy. That mix of public and private work shaped how she plans care and talks through difficult topics. People come to her for relationship troubles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress, and for support with life changes and grief.

Laura uses a range of approaches depending on what a person needs. She works with techniques from dialectical behaviour therapy to help with emotional regulation and coping skills. She also draws on trauma-focused work and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and mood.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. She focuses on practical tools alongside understanding where problems began. That dual focus aims to give immediate relief as well as longer term insight.

Clients can expect clear, direct conversation that stays respectful and calm. Treatment plans are tailored and reviewed as work progresses. She welcomes people seeking support for issues such as addiction, eating and body image concerns, ADHD-related struggles, intimacy issues, career difficulties and family-of-origin problems.

Approaches that translate to online therapy

Dialectical behaviour therapy helps people develop practical skills for managing strong emotions and reducing self-destructive behaviours. It focuses on teaching breathing, distress tolerance and interpersonal techniques that can be practised between sessions and applied during stressful moments.

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing is a trauma-focused approach that helps reduce the intensity of painful memories. In sessions the therapist guides attention while you talk about memories, which can make distressing reactions lessen over time and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do together with the client. Laura will discuss aims, preferences and past experiences, and then propose ways of working that match those needs. That collaborative planning can include combining practical skills with trauma-focused or psychodynamic work as appropriate.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a better fit for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexibility for shorter updates or when a written format feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to keep continuity while juggling work, family and travel.