Laura Disley, BACP

Laura Disley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She has experience supporting people through family conflict, coping with loss, and a wide range of life changes. Laura holds BACP accreditation and has around ten years of professional experience in counselling work.

Her style is warm and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps, clear goals and the client’s own values. Laura aims to make the first steps feel manageable and understandable.

In practice she uses approaches such as client-centred listening and mindfulness to help people notice what matters and calm overwhelming thoughts. She also draws on solution-focused techniques to find small, usable changes and motivational interviewing to support shifts in behaviour or difficult decisions.

People often come with stress, trauma, addiction or issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Laura also works with caregiving strain, cancer-related concerns, ADHD, and matters linked to ageing and bereavement. She pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current relationships.

Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted. Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on attentive listening and reflecting what the client says so people feel heard and clearer about their choices. It can help with depression, low self-esteem and relationship questions by making space to talk without judgement.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm racing thoughts and reduce stress. This approach is often useful for anxiety, sleep problems and coping with difficult emotions after loss or illness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The counsellor will talk through goals, preferences and practical needs, and suggest using one or a mixture of approaches based on what the client wants to achieve.

If you are considering online sessions, check the practical session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biographical information. Online work can make regular meetings easier to fit in around family, work and medical appointments. It can also allow shorter check-ins or sessions without video when that better suits a day’s schedule. Registered or accredited professionals using online appointments can help people keep momentum between sessions and apply strategies in everyday life.