How Laura works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Laura
Laura Sternberg is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri who focuses on practical work for people facing stress, anger, anxiety, and major life changes. She uses clear, direct conversations to help clients understand what they are feeling and why it matters. Her style is warm and down-to-earth and aimed at making progress in everyday life.
With eight years of experience, Laura helps people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, and grief.
Background and approach
She also supports those managing addiction, career stress, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Sessions often focus on immediate coping skills alongside deeper work to understand patterns that keep problems repeating. Her approach draws on several methods including mindfulness, narrative work, and solution-focused techniques.
Laura also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a trauma-focused method intended to reduce the intensity of distressing memories. She adapts these tools to a person’s needs rather than following a single formula. Clients can expect straightforward planning in session: identifying one or two goals, trying practical steps, and reviewing what helps between meetings.
Laura pays attention to attachment and family of origin issues when they affect current relationships and emotion regulation. People who reach out often want relief from persistent worry, repeated patterns of anger, or the drain of caregiving and first responder stress. Laura works with each person to build skills for calmer responses and clearer decision making.
What Laura works with
Everything Laura lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Laura's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura lists
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Existential Therapy helps people name what matters most to them and make choices that match those values; it can be useful when life changes, loneliness, or questions about meaning are central. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the distress they cause. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and ease symptoms of anxiety and anger.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend one or two methods to try. That plan is revisited as progress is made so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and eye contact, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing tracking between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact while trying new coping skills.
Questions people ask about Laura
What kinds of problems does this therapist address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship strain, grief, addiction, career concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue among other issues.
What is the therapist's style and approach?
Her style is warm and practical. She blends mindfulness, narrative, solution-focused work, existential ideas, and EMDR when trauma-focused work is needed.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience working with people facing emotional and life challenges in Missouri.
What credential does the therapist hold and where are they based?
She holds a Missouri LPC license and practices from Missouri.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions delivered?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
What does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.