Guides
The library
Plain-language guides written for people in Charlotte and beyond, each with its sources. Start with the topic closest to what you are dealing with.
Psychotherapy
Relationships, faith and change
Infidelity recovery
The first days after discovery, the stages couples describe, and what rebuilding involves. 16 guides.
Learn moreCouples communication
The patterns that keep arguments going, and the skills that help them land differently. 14 guides.
Learn moreConflict and resentment
Fighting all the time, arguments that never get settled, and resentment that will not let go. 15 guides.
Learn moreBlended families
Stepparenting, children who need time, exes, holidays and keeping the couple strong in a stepfamily. 13 guides.
Learn moreParenting and postpartum
Baby blues and postpartum depression, anxiety after a baby, and the stress of raising children. 12 guides.
Learn moreDating guide for women
What respectful treatment looks like, reading the early signs, and support when dating gets hard. 12 guides.
Learn moreFaith and therapy
How faith can have a place in counseling, and support when belief itself is part of the struggle. 8 guides.
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Individual counseling
Mood, stress, grief and change
Inner child work
The complete Carolinas guide: what inner child work is, how reparenting and related therapies work, and where to start in Charlotte or Tryon. 31 guides.
Learn moreDepression and anxiety
Recognizing depression and anxiety, living with them day to day, and the kinds of help that exist. 12 guides.
Learn moreCoping and stress
Coping skills that hold up under pressure, and what to do when being crazy busy has become a way of life. 16 guides.
Learn moreWork stress and layoffs
Chronic job stress, the fear of layoffs, and getting your footing back after losing a job. 11 guides.
Learn moreGrief and loss
What grief feels like, the many kinds of loss, the first holidays, and what grief counseling involves. 12 guides.
Learn moreLife transitions
Empty nest, retirement, divorce, caregiving, a move or a new baby: the changes that unsettle us. 8 guides.
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Near Tryon
Counseling in the foothills
Tryon counseling guide
Counseling in Tryon, Polk County and the Upstate SC foothills: the Columbus office, couples, grief, small-town privacy and local support. 15 guides.
Learn moreAnxiety in a small town
Anxiety and stress around Tryon and Polk County: what it is, your options, privacy, and how to get started discreetly. 24 guides.
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Mind, body and spirit
Emotion Code and spiritual healing
Spiritual and energy work is part of how Laura works with the whole person, and it is always your choice whether it is part of your sessions. It is not medical or psychiatric treatment and not a substitute for care from a doctor or a mental-health professional.
The Emotion Code guide
What the method is, how sessions work, and an honest look at what the evidence does and does not show. 20 guides.
Learn moreSpiritual healing
Reiki, chakra work, Andean energy traditions and spiritual direction, explained plainly. 8 guides.
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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.
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