Laura Walls, LPC

Laura Walls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Her approach aims to bring clarity and practical steps so clients can feel more confident and steady in daily life.

She has worked with women, young adults, and caregivers, and has particular experience with midlife changes. Laura focuses on building stronger communication, healthier self-esteem, and clearer boundaries. Sessions often center on understanding patterns that get in the way of feeling connected and capable.

Her practice draws on attachment-based and client-centered methods, combined with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. That mix is used to identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of responding, and strengthen emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing also helps when people want to make concrete changes but feel stuck.

In therapy, Laura aims to keep conversations straightforward and collaborative. She listens for the practical problems behind the feelings and helps create small, achievable steps. People work on improving sleep, managing stress, coping with grief, and addressing trauma and abuse in ways that fit their life.

She also supports those dealing with caregiving strain, adoption or foster care concerns, attachment or abandonment issues, and ADHD-related challenges. If someone wants to begin, they start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. It helps people identify attachment behaviors and learn different ways to feel safer and closer in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by teaching concrete skills and practice tasks.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, try different methods, and collaboratively decide what feels most helpful based on your goals and preferences. This process aims to match practical strategies to your everyday life rather than imposing a single technique.

Confirm the available session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it simpler to continue care through life changes while focusing on communication skills, stress management, and intimacy-related issues in ways that fit a client's routine.