Laura Duncan

Laura Duncan, LMSW, uses a compassionate, person-focused approach to help people facing emotional strain. She centers sessions on understanding each person's story and building practical skills for coping. Laura keeps language plain and aims for clear, manageable steps rather than jargon. With nine years of clinical experience, she helps people tackle stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also supports work on self-esteem, grief, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. Laura often addresses relationship and communication problems alongside emotional symptoms. Her work draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-Centered and Mindfulness approaches help people slow down, notice feelings, and make choices from awareness rather than reactivity. Sessions tend to focus on concrete goals like reducing worry, improving sleep, or managing strong emotions. Practical exercises and short between-session tasks are common so progress continues outside meetings. She also addresses specific topics such as ADHD, burnout, chronic illness, body image, and issues around adoption or caregiver stress. Laura aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients decide the pace of work. She encourages people to name small steps and build skills that fit daily life. If someone is unsure what to try first, she helps map options and set realistic goals.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and how they show up now. Online sessions can be a place to notice those patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice different reactions in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. In remote sessions, CBT often uses brief exercises and homework that fit into everyday routines, like tracking thoughts or trying a short behavior experiment. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing care during life transitions or when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, mindfulness practices, and CBT tasks for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.