Laura Edwards , BACP

Laura Edwards is a counsellor who focuses on helping women with everyday pressures and deeper emotional challenges. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self‑esteem and depression. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy worries, addictions, ADHD and the impact of trauma or loss.

She uses a compassionate, person-centred style that puts each person's story first. Laura believes the client knows their life best and she helps them build on their own strengths. Sessions are straightforward and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time.

Her approach draws on attachment work and cognitive behavioural ideas to make sense of patterns in relationships and thinking. She also uses emotionally focused techniques when relationship feelings need attention, and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to manage intense emotions.

Laura holds BACP registration, which reflects her practice in the United Kingdom. She has seven years of professional experience working with adults from a range of backgrounds, including people navigating parenting, caregiving, chronic illness, adoption and identity questions.

People who choose Laura often want a calm, steady presence and clear tools they can use between sessions. She aims to create a space where worries can be named and practical steps planned. Taking that first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support while clients find their way forward.

Therapeutic approaches online and how they help

Attachment‑based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online this helps people see how they relate to partners and others, and find different ways to connect. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating issues by teaching clear coping strategies.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. This is collaborative and paced to each person's needs, so clients help steer which methods are used.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check‑in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter reflections, notes between sessions or when typing feels simpler than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while using approaches that help with relationships, mood and coping skills.