Laura Angers Maddox , LPC

Laura Angers Maddox is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate difficult life transitions. She earned a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling in 2012 and has worked across a range of settings, including group homes, traditional office environments, and in-home counseling.

Her background includes focused work with survivors of trauma and abuse, people coping with depression, stress, and anxiety, and couples experiencing relationship distress. For trauma work she employs Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, while she uses cognitive-behavioral techniques for mood and anxiety concerns and systems theory when addressing family and couple dynamics. Her approach is accepting, understanding, and encouraging, aiming to build a counseling relationship grounded in respect and trust.

Across different settings and presentations, she emphasizes practical skills and collaborative planning to help clients move toward clearer communication, improved coping, and stronger connections with others. Her experience spans individual, family, and couples work, reflecting a commitment to tailoring care to each person’s needs and circumstances.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Laura integrates Client-Centered Therapy by prioritizing the individual’s experience and fostering a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can explore their concerns at their own pace. This approach supports self-awareness and personal growth and is helpful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relational concerns.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skills-based, often applied to anxiety, depression, and panic-related symptoms to reduce distress and increase coping strategies.

For trauma work, she applies Trauma-Focused techniques that combine understanding of traumatic stress with structured interventions to help survivors process memories and regain a sense of safety and control. These methods are aimed at reducing trauma-related symptoms and improving daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and she collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Licensed professionals tailor plans over time, adjusting techniques as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity from different locations, and access support when in-person options are limited.