Laura Turba , BACP

Laura Turba is a qualified counsellor and children's counsellor who practices in a person-centred way, meeting people at a pace that suits them. She holds BACP accreditation - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and brings three years of clinical experience working with a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and presenting issues.

Throughout her career Laura has worked across different agencies and used score-related assessments to inform care and track progress. She has worked extensively with matters including suicide and self-harm prevention, sexual abuse, and childhood trauma, and reports a strong record of positive outcomes when using person-centred approaches with these concerns. Her practice is informed by additional training and experience in trauma, relationship and family issues, grief, addictions, ADHD, and a broad range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Laura aims to keep the client at the centre of therapy, helping people work through difficult life experiences while moving at a level and pace they find manageable. She combines empathic listening with practical tools drawn from evidence-informed approaches to support coping, resilience and longer-term change. Laura offers flexible working arrangements to accommodate family and work commitments and encourages prospective clients to raise any concerns about starting or maintaining therapy so they can be addressed collaboratively.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing and resilience

Laura typically draws on client-centred therapy, trauma-focused therapy, and mindfulness approaches in online work. Client-centred therapy prioritises the individual's experience, offering a non-directive, empathetic space that helps people explore feelings, values and goals and is useful for relationship, self-esteem and life transition issues. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing traumatic memories and their impact, helping clients develop coping strategies for symptoms related to abuse, loss or overwhelming events. Mindfulness therapy introduces grounding and awareness practices to reduce reactivity, support emotional regulation and build resilience for conditions such as anxiety, stress and chronic emotional pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is decided collaboratively. Laura will work with each person to identify priorities, review what feels most helpful, and adapt methods to fit individual needs, goals and preferences, drawing on the skills of licensed professionals when appropriate.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit counselling around work, family and geographic constraints. These options support consistent engagement and allow therapists to use the same core approaches effectively in different formats.