Laura Westbrook, LPC

Laura Westbrook is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with seven years of clinical experience based in Tennessee. She focuses on addiction, trauma, mood concerns, relationship and family issues, and related challenges such as grief, anxiety, and stress. Laura also lists work with LGBT clients and people living with HIV and chronic illness as areas she supports.

Her main approach comes from a client-centered perspective that treats the person as the expert on their life. Sessions often involve conversation and practical tools chosen together. She uses humor and cultural references like books, music, or TV to help connect ideas to everyday life.

Laura’s early interest in mental health came from concerns about care in the criminal justice system. She has worked largely in nonprofit settings focused on addictions and trauma. That experience included supporting people across gender identities and a range of ages.

She blends attachment-informed thinking with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to address patterns in relationships and behavior. This can mean looking at how past connections shape current trust, or using brief mindful practices to manage stress and mood.

Practical problems such as communication breakdowns, intimacy-related concerns, anger, and codependency are common topics in her work. She also lists specific focus areas like abandonment, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture.

Outside of clinical work she draws on cultural experiences from growing up in California and studying in Alabama and Florida. She mentions using shared media like TV to ease tension and build rapport during sessions.

How her approaches translate to online work