Surilla Lawrence , LPC

Surilla Lawrence is a licensed professional counselor who uses compassionate, practical therapy to help people navigate hard life moments. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Surilla aims to create a straightforward space where clients can talk, be heard, and find clearer next steps.

She adapts sessions to each person’s needs and life situation. That might mean short-term tools for coping with anxiety or deeper work on attachment and relationship patterns. She also helps with issues like addictions, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, and career strain.

Surilla draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally focused ideas. In practice she explains interventions plainly and focuses on what will help in daily life. Sessions include both skill-building and reflective conversation depending on what a client needs.

With seven years of experience in Michigan, Surilla has supported people through losses, health-related caregiving stress, blended family challenges, and forgiveness and grief work. She pays attention to how abandonment, codependency, control issues, and guilt shape relationships and coping.

Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental stance and collaborative planning. Surilla encourages small, realistic steps toward change and checks in about progress. The aim is steady improvement in how people manage feelings, handle conflict, and move forward.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care

Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns shape current relationships and feelings of security. Online sessions can help identify these patterns and practice new ways of connecting in everyday life. Client-centered therapy centers the person in the room and emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals; it helps people gain clarity and self-direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and short skills work that transfer well to video or phone sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and lifestyle. That means starting with what feels most relevant and adjusting techniques as insight and needs change over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving options for different situations. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit during a break from work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.