Louise Laine, LPC

Louise Laine brings 25 years of experience helping people navigate life’s changes and challenges from her practice in Michigan. Her work has spanned private practice, educational settings, and career-related environments, giving her a broad perspective on the stresses that affect individuals and families.

Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with a co-active, client-led style rooted in positive psychology. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on the concerns the client identifies, with the goal of restoring balance and supporting growth rather than prescribing a fixed path. Over time this collaborative alliance helps people regain stability and move toward the life they want.

She holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - and is also a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a national credential that reflects professional standards in counseling. Louise specializes in stress and anxiety, family and relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, addictions, parenting, anger, career concerns, depression, and coaching. Additional focuses include aging and geriatric issues, forgiveness, life purpose, narcissism, panic disorder, self-love, social anxiety, and women’s issues. She is committed to listening, caring, and collaborating with each person she works with to find practical, meaningful ways forward.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Louise Laine uses client-centered therapy to make the person’s own goals and pace the focus of sessions. This approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, and working from the client’s priorities to build insight and resilience, which can be helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical method that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT is useful for addressing anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and unhelpful patterns by teaching skills for changing thinking and behavior.

Mindfulness therapy is incorporated to help clients develop present-moment awareness and stress management tools. These practices can reduce reactivity and support coping with grief, chronic stress, and anxiety.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and Louise collaborates with each client to determine what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She guides exploration of methods and adjusts strategies as progress is made.

Online therapy with Louise is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care, access support from home, and choose the format that works best for a client’s life and routine.