Laura Brum , LPC

Laura Brum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 10 years of experience providing mental health support in a rural community. She has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, career transitions, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, ADHD, and those who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse. Her background in rural counseling has shaped a practical, grounded approach to helping clients navigate life’s stresses and recover from past wounds.

Her therapeutic style is described as warm, caring, and interactive; she meets people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion and avoids stigmatizing labels. Her work blends positive psychology and solution-focused strategies with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), trauma-focused techniques, client-centered methods, and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). This combination is used to help clients move forward, process earlier experiences, and develop individualized treatment plans tailored to specific goals and needs.

She believes therapy can be approachable and effective without being intimidating, and she aims to empower clients as they take steps toward a more fulfilling life. Laura offers support to those ready to begin change and works collaboratively to identify practical paths forward.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client’s own voice and experience, offering a supportive space where the therapist follows the client’s lead to build understanding and trust; it is especially helpful for people seeking empathic, collaborative care as they work through relationship, identity, or attachment concerns.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, providing practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and mood-related challenges through structured exercises and skills practice.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity; it can be applied when past events continue to affect daily functioning or cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Laura Brum works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors plans over time, blending techniques as appropriate to support progress.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - so people can access licensed professionals from different locations, fit sessions into busy schedules, and maintain continuity of care even when life is unpredictable.