Laura Sternberg, LPC

Laura Sternberg is a licensed professional counselor who helps people navigate depression, anxiety, trauma, and major life transitions. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a steady, compassionate approach to sessions. Laura works with adults facing stress, grief, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, and issues tied to aging and geriatric changes.

Her sessions focus on understanding the whole person. She listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and self-worth and helps people name what feels stuck. Practical tools and short-term goals are used alongside deeper work when needed. This can look like building coping skills, practicing mindfulness, or creating a plan for healthier routines.

Laura uses approaches such as existential therapy and narrative work to help people find meaning and reframe life stories. She also incorporates EMDR for trauma-focused processing and solution-focused techniques when a clear, goal-oriented plan is helpful. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce overwhelm and support emotional regulation.

She often supports people coping with caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and the loneliness that can come with major life shifts. Laura helps clients facing abandonment wounds, body image struggles, and career-related stress to clarify values and next steps. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Laura is based in Missouri and conducts therapy in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site's Start Therapy flow.

How therapy approaches fit into online care

Existential therapy helps people explore meaning, values, and life choices when facing big changes or loss. It invites questions about purpose and helps clients make decisions that match what matters most. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses bilateral stimulation alongside memory processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and personal preferences with each person and suggest approaches that suit their needs. That decision is made together and can shift as progress unfolds.

Session format options are not itemized here, so confirm current offerings before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel time, allowing brief check-ins when schedules are tight, or reducing the need for a lengthy commute. It also helps people keep continuity of care during relocations or when managing caregiving duties. Licensed professionals can use a mix of techniques such as mindfulness exercises, goal-focused planning, and trauma processing adapted for remote work to support clients' progress.