Laura Duncan, LMSW

Laura Duncan is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She uses clear, practical approaches so people can make steady progress. Laura keeps sessions straightforward and centered on what each person needs right now.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust in relationships. Client-centered listening helps people feel heard while they figure out next steps.

Over nine years in Michigan, Laura has supported people facing depression, self-esteem struggles, parenting challenges, and career strain. She also works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating and body image struggles, ADHD, and caregiver stress. Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, chronic illness, and codependency.

In sessions she uses simple tools - thought records, behavioral experiments, mindfulness exercises, and motivational interviewing techniques - to break problems into manageable steps. Conversations are paced to match the person and to build skills that fit daily life.

Laura welcomes clients who want practical, compassionate help to cope, make changes, and strengthen relationships. Her style aims to be supportive and down-to-earth while helping people develop real skills they can use after therapy ends.

Practical approaches that work online

Laura uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking and try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and low mood. She also draws on attachment-based work to address trust, closeness, and patterns that affect relationships, and client-centered listening to make space for people to be heard and decide goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Laura will listen to each person's concerns, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust plans based on what feels useful. Clients collaborate on goals and on which tools to keep or change as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy conversations, phone can be a lighter option when bandwidth is low, live chat and text work well for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while still using evidence-informed approaches.