- Stress and anxiety
- Life transitions
- CBT and mindfulness
About Laura
Laura Pascal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 20 years of experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strains, and questions about life purpose. Her practice also covers relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
Clients meet a therapist who emphasizes clear, practical conversation. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what the person wants to change. Laura uses straightforward techniques to help people manage emotions and make decisions about next steps.
Her background includes long-term work with people facing life transitions such as midlife change, divorce, caregiving, and work-related stress. She has spent two decades refining ways to support those coping with chronic illness, disability, and the stresses faced by first responders and veterans. This experience shapes how she frames goals and plans.
The approach draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral strategies to identify patterns of thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used to help people notice automatic reactions and reframe stories they tell about themselves. Motivational interviewing supports setting realistic, actionable goals.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. Laura helps people build small, manageable steps they can try between meetings. She asks about daily routines, obstacles, and what matters most when shaping those steps.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Laura commonly uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness techniques in her work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building a collaborative plan based on what matters to the person. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and helps people try different ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress. Mindfulness practices help people notice moment-to-moment experience and reduce automatic reactions to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Laura will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session goals and the types of exercises or experiments used between meetings.
Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with her during the matching process about how to arrange sessions that fit your schedule and what practical changes to try between appointments.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, career questions, compassion fatigue, and life purpose issues.
How would she approach someone feeling stuck?
The approach is collaborative and practical, using client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative work, and motivational interviewing to identify goals and small steps forward.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of life changes and stressors.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in New Jersey and practices there.
Can I work with her if I live outside the US?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available for appointments.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.