About Laura
Laura Phen is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work. She centers therapy on a client-focused approach that emphasizes empathy, active listening, and collaboration while also drawing on evidence-based methods to address symptoms and patterns.
Background and approach
Based in South Dakota, she helps people navigate relationship strains, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, depression, anxiety, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, and related challenges such as compassion fatigue and sleep difficulties.
Her practice also attends to a wide range of linked issues, including parenting stress, career questions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, chronic pain or illness, codependency, communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and life purpose. Laura integrates practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside mindfulness and client-centered techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs.
She invites prospective clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability, using a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, collaboration, and creating a respectful therapeutic relationship; it focuses on understanding the client's perspective and supporting personal growth through a compassionate stance. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress-related problems. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) blends acceptance and change strategies and offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to assess goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, then adapt methods over time so the treatment plan fits the client’s needs and evolving circumstances. This flexible stance helps ensure techniques are useful and relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides practical flexibility for fitting care into busy lives. These formats allow consistent access to licensed professionals from different locations, enable continuity of care during scheduling changes, and support follow-up between synchronous sessions with messaging when appropriate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Utah, South Dakota, Arizona
- Languages
- English