Compassionate support for
real life and real change
Therapy for healing, growth & connection
Psychotherapy and relationship counseling in Charlotte, North Carolina. Laura Bass works with adults and older teens who are trying to make sense of something difficult — a relationship under strain, a loss, a period of change, or a pattern that keeps repeating.
Who Laura works with
Reasons people get in touch
Laura sees adults and teens aged 17 and over, individually and as couples.
- Couple and relationship difficulties
- Infidelity and rebuilding trust
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Adjustment reactions
- Midlife issues
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions
- Shame
- Trauma
- Chronic illness
- Not on the list?It is still worth asking. Part of a first conversation is working out whether Laura is the right person for it.
Ways of working
Psychotherapy counseling
Ongoing individual work on the things that shape how you feel and how you relate to people.
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One-to-one sessions for adults and older teens, at whatever pace suits you.
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For partners who want to communicate differently, or who are deciding what happens next.
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Support after an affair, for one partner or both, without pressure toward a particular outcome.
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About Laura
How I work
My approach to psychotherapy is best described as holistic, humanistic and integrative, and it has emerged from a synergistic process between my studies and my life experiences.
I help you learn to navigate a world of too many demands and too little real connection — with God or Creator, with yourself, with others, and with the earth. My approach is customized to each individual, couple or family. For effective relationship counseling, I have found that working on all levels — mind, body, spirit and energy — can produce changes that are sustainable over the long term.
To function in a fast-paced world it is important to have tools to manage stress, so that you have the energy and vitality to pursue self-care and your own path. To be fully in the now, where you can self-actualize, it helps to identify and clear limiting thoughts and beliefs, and to clear energy blockages left by your experiences over the course of your life. Hardship can help us grow, as long as we learn what it has to teach and stop repeating the patterns that are not working.
I appreciate the benefit of talk therapy, but I also know that simply understanding why you feel or act a certain way does not always change an ingrained, unconscious pattern. That is why I offer other kinds of work as well. I am a Certified Emotion Code practitioner and trained in other forms of energy work. You, the client, choose what to include in your treatment plan — I simply offer the possibilities available to you.
Choosing a therapist is largely about whether you can talk to them. A first conversation is the fastest way to find out.
Recognition
Ann Brown Award
For significant contribution to mental health
What you can expect
Integrative,
and yours to shapeTwo pathways,
kept separateNo promised outcomes.
No pressure to book.
Part of a first conversation is simply working out whether Laura is the right person for what you are carrying.
What happens next
Starting is three steps
Get in touch
Send a short message or call. A couple of sentences about what you are looking for is plenty — the detail belongs in a session, not a form.
Have a conversation
You describe what has brought you here and Laura describes how she works. It is a conversation about fit, not the first session of therapy.
Decide together
If it seems like a fit, you book. If it does not, Laura will say so and point you somewhere more useful. There is no obligation either way.
A separate pathway
Spiritual healing
Alongside her psychotherapy practice, Laura offers complementary and spiritual work. This is a different thing from psychotherapy, it is booked separately, and nobody is moved into it as part of therapy unless they ask.
It exists because some people specifically want it. If that is not you, none of it will be part of your sessions.
Resource Center
Reading, while you decide
Plain-language writing on relationships, emotional wellbeing and finding the right kind of support. Educational, and not a substitute for talking to someone.
Relationship Health
Communication, conflict, trust and repair — in couples and in the other relationships that shape a life.
Read moreEmotional Wellness
Anxiety, low mood, shame and the day-to-day work of managing how you feel.
Read moreSpecialty Education
Explanations of specific approaches — what they are, what they are for, and what the evidence does and does not show.
Read moreLocal Resources
Support available in the Charlotte area and across North Carolina, including services this practice does not provide.
Read moreLife Transitions
Grief, career change, illness, separation, and the other points where life reorganises itself.
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Getting started
Take the next step
The first step is a conversation. You describe what has brought you here, Laura describes how she works, and between you it becomes clearer whether to carry on.
There is no obligation to book anything afterwards, and it is a reasonable thing to do even if you are not sure you want therapy yet.
Prefer to write rather than call? Use the form, or see the contact page for office details.