“Beauty is in the eye of anyone who sees what’s missing but can’t stop pointing to what’s still there. If there’s no definition for love yet – I think that’s a good one.”

-Andrea Gibson

A woman with curly hair, glasses, and a striped shirt smiling and taking a selfie with her black dog in a room with a blue wall and a window in the background.

About me…

Hey, I’m Laura

I grew up in a religious community and an academic school. So church trained me to hide my sexuality. And school trained me to hide my dyslexia. I coped. I looked like I was on top of it. But I couldn’t understand why I never felt myself, outside of a few close relationships. Why I seemed to lose my confidence so easily. Why my critical voice was so loud. Why I quietly struggled with anxiety and depression.

So I set out on a journey to unpack why I so often felt like a misfit and it’s led me to a place where I can (most of the time) embrace the parts of me I thought I had to hide.

It’s been a journey to love and accept my differences but one that builds wholeness, lets you walk taller, quietens the inner critic, and eases anxiety and depression.

If you’ve spent your life feeling like a misfit too, I’d love to walk with you on this journey. To understand that you’re not wrong but the environment around you is. To heal and recover from the damage this has done to you. To help you figure out what you need and learn to set boundaries that serve you. To make friends with your uniqueness and celebrate all of you, not just the parts that look ok.

Home office with a wooden desk, gray swivel chair, green potted plant, blue wall with two framed paintings, desk lamp, and a printer.

Work Experience

I’ve previously worked for Tonbridge Counselling Service as well as Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, a tiny but fantastic organisation that provides much needed support to refugees and asylum seekers across South London. At both, I provided counselling to clients from a wide range of background who were struggling with things like depression, anxiety, PTSD and childhood trauma.

I then spent five years at Solace Women’s Aid, where I provided therapy to people who had experienced domestic or sexual violence.

I’ve been in Private Practice since 2022.

Qualifications

I qualified with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling in 2017, awarded by CPCAB. Since then, I’ve completed further training in:

  • ADHD Clinical Services Provider Certification Course (PESI, 2025)

  • Working Alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People (Gendered Intelligence, 2025)

  • Certificate in Polyvagal Skills and Supervision Group (Deb Dana, LCSW LICSW, 2023)

  • Certificate in Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (Janina Fisher, PH.D., 2023)

  • Certificate in Third Wave CBT including mindfulness, Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, and ACT (British Psychological Society, 2018)

Six wooden nesting dolls of increasing size next to a potted plant with large green leaves on a wooden surface against a blue wall.
Top view of two potted succulents and a yellow notebook with a black pen on a wooden surface.

Professional Membership

Because I collect and hold your data, I am registered with the Information Commissioners Office. To find out more, please read my Privacy Policy.

I am a Registered Member of the BACP and abide by their ‘Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions’ and guidelines for ‘Working Online in the Counselling Professions’.

BACP logo and accreditation badge, indicating a registered member with number 380846, associated with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

If you’d like to find out more, I offer free 15 minute phone consultations. Send me a message and we’ll arrange a time to talk.

Contact me