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Laura Bourne, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyLGBTTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Laura Bourne is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues linked to self-esteem and relationships. She also helps with grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping difficulties, anger, coping with life changes and ADHD. Laura holds BACP and NCPS credentials and draws on five years of professional experience.
Her style is warm and non-judgemental. Sessions are collaborative and aim to help people make small, practical changes that feel manageable.
Background and approach
She starts by listening to what matters most to the person sitting opposite her, then agrees simple steps to try between sessions. Laura trained first in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, but she uses several approaches so therapy fits the person rather than the other way round.
She works with attachment patterns, explores past experiences that still affect day-to-day life, and uses solution-focused ideas to set short-term goals. People bring a wide range of concerns about family, identity and belonging, including issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, blended family challenges and family of origin problems.
She also has a focus on neurodiversity and conditions like autism and Asperger syndrome, along with related problems such as dissociation and dependent or avoidant personality traits. Laura describes herself as trauma-aware and takes a paced approach when trauma or domestic violence has been part of someone’s story.
She aims to help people feel steadier, build coping strategies and work towards clearer next steps. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, chat or messaging.
How Laura’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust. Online work with this approach looks at how attachment styles affect current relationships and helps people try different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and offers simple techniques to test new responses to stress, anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. Decisions about which approaches to use are made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging lets people keep a written record of thoughts and fit therapy around work or caring commitments. These options make it easier to access regular support and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
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