About Laura
Laura Kirk is a psychotherapist who works from a somatic and client-centred perspective. She holds BACP registration and has three years of clinical experience alongside many earlier years supporting people in mental health roles. Laura makes space for people to notice what their body is saying and to use that awareness in sessions.
She uses somatic methods to help clients tune into bodily sensations and access feelings that can be hard to reach through talk alone.
Background and approach
That helps when past trauma, anxiety or grief become stuck in the body and affect day-to-day life. Sessions also focus on practical ways to calm the nervous system and build steady routines. Laura draws on trauma-focused approaches when memories or adverse events keep affecting current wellbeing.
She aims to create a trusting, open relationship where difficult material can be looked at gently and safely. She balances warmth and challenge, noticing where words and actions don’t match and naming that in session. Her work includes support for stress, anxiety, depression, bereavement, low self-esteem and parenting concerns.
She also has experience supporting people living with ADHD, autism, chronic illness and issues around caregiving and end of life. Laura describes herself as spiritual but not religious and welcomes diverse identities. In sessions she emphasises self-awareness and strength spotting.
Clients are invited to make choices about their path and pace. Practical tools, body awareness and steady discussion are woven together to help people move through what is holding them back.
How somatic and trauma-informed approaches work online
Laura combines somatic work with client-centred and trauma-focused methods. Somatic therapy helps people notice bodily sensations and use that information to access feelings linked to stress, anxiety or past hurt. Client-centred work means the session follows the persons pace and priorities, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and reflection. Trauma-focused methods look at how past events affect the present and aim to help people process those effects in manageable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Laura will talk through preferences, needs and goals and adapt the way she works in response. That collaborative process helps decide whether more body-based exercises, gentle processing of memories or person-centred conversation is most helpful at any stage.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These options let people fit therapy around work, caring duties or mobility limits and choose the format that feels safest. The variety of contact methods also allows for practical ways to practise calming techniques between sessions and stay connected when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English