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Laura Ward, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsSelf esteemDepression
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Laura Ward offers a warm, person-centred approach to therapy. She uses that human-focused stance alongside practical strategies to help with everyday struggles. Laura draws on three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation.
She speaks English and sees international clients. In sessions she listens without judgement and helps people name what feels difficult. Her client-centred way means the person’s goals shape the work.
Cognitive behavioural ideas can be used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviours.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy approaches support exploring and reshaping emotional responses and closeness in relationships. People come to Laura for many reasons. She supports work on stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses parenting pressures, anger, career concerns, bipolar-related challenges, compassion fatigue and ADHD related issues. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, eating concerns, substance difficulties, chronic illness, caregiver stress and communication problems. Sessions aim to help people understand how past events and family patterns shape current thoughts and reactions.
Laura offers practical steps for managing distress and building resilience. She uses a warm, empathic style and encourages self-compassion and realistic goals. Therapy is offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and are provided through a cancellable subscription. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective. The therapist follows the client’s pace and priorities, offering acceptance and reflection to help people clarify what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. In online sessions this can include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioural changes between meetings to reduce distress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on emotional experience and relationship patterns. It helps people recognise their emotional responses and try new ways of relating, which can aid connection and reduce repeated cycles of conflict.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the issues being faced and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflection and support across a day. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people choose how they prefer to communicate.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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