Laura Howard, BACP

Laura Howard is a fully qualified integrative therapist and a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom. She brings five years of clinical experience and combines training in psychodynamic and humanistic models to tailor her work to each person’s needs.

Laura has particular experience supporting people affected by adoption and special guardianship, having completed a certificate in adoption counselling. She offers therapeutic support to birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees, and other family members, addressing issues such as attachment patterns, shame, loss, and questions of personal or cultural identity. Her private practice has also included work with clients from the LGBTQ+ community across a variety of age groups.

Known for a warm and empathic manner, Laura aims to provide a safe and personal space where clients can be heard and better understood. The first session is used to explore how to work together, discuss the therapist’s approach, and identify the main issues a client wishes to address. From there she and the client collaborate on goals and a way forward that respects the client’s pace and preferences.

Approach-Focused Online Therapy: Attachment, Client-Centered, Psychodynamic

Attachment-Based Therapy helps explore how early relationships shape current patterns of relating. It can be useful for people working with abandonment, adoption-related concerns, intimacy issues, and recurring relationship difficulties by looking at emotional bonds and how they influence behaviour.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a non-directive, empathic stance where the therapist offers understanding and support while the client leads the pace of therapy. This approach supports self-exploration and can be especially helpful for issues such as low self-esteem, life transitions, and coping with stress.

Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on identifying recurring themes and unconscious patterns that affect current feelings and relationships. By examining past experiences and emotional responses, this approach can illuminate the roots of anxiety, grief, and interpersonal difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Laura works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods feel most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences, and may blend approaches as therapy progresses. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt techniques to suit each individual.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place via video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access support from home or elsewhere.