Laura Howard, BACP

Laura Howard is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with five years' experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief and depression, and helps people dealing with relationship, family and intimacy-related issues. She also supports those managing anger, self-esteem, career concerns and the changes life brings.

Laura uses a mixture of psychodynamic and humanistic ideas in her practice, drawing on attachment-focused ways of understanding how past relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Sessions are a place to talk through what feels important and to think about patterns that repeat in relationships and daily life.

She has experience supporting people from the LGBT community and has completed a certificate in adoption counselling. That training informs work with birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees and others affected by adoption and special guardianship orders. Common themes she addresses include attachment styles, shame, loss and identity.

In an initial meeting she helps clients clarify what they want to work on and explains how she practices. That session is an opportunity to ask practical questions about length and frequency of meetings and whether her approach feels like a fit. She aims to help clients notice how long-standing patterns influence current responses and to find manageable ways to practise change between sessions.

Her approach is conversational and reflective. She listens for recurring themes and gently links past experience with present difficulties. Practical steps and clearer understanding are offered alongside longer-term reflection.

How her approaches translate to online work