Laura Husband
Compassionate therapy grounded in practical skills
LCSW Illinois
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Laura
Laura Husband is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years of experience working in community mental health. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges, and supports clients coping with parenting concerns, grief, sleep difficulties, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and trauma informed, and she emphasizes an empathic, person-centered connection as the foundation for change. She draws on a mix of evidence-informed tools to match each person's needs, including cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and emotionally-focused techniques.
In clinical supervision and direct care she has worked with individuals who have experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as well as a range of mood and stress-related presentations. Laura aims to identify practical skills and meaningful goals that reduce distress and increase day-to-day functioning.
Clients can expect an approach that balances supportive listening with concrete strategies for coping and growth. She frames therapy as a collaborative process, guiding people toward clearer patterns, better communication, and lasting improvements in well-being.
How evidence-informed approaches translate to online care
Laura uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thinking and develop practical skills for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing behavior. CBT offers structured tools such as thought records and behavioral experiments that translate well to remote formats. She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be practiced in session and applied between meetings for crises, relationship strain, and intense emotional reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She works collaboratively with each person to clarify goals, review options, and blend methods that fit their preferences and needs rather than relying on a single technique. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what feels most useful and achievable for the client.
Online therapy with Laura is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and communication styles. These formats make accessing consistent support easier for people with busy lives or limited mobility, and they allow therapists to provide skills coaching, session work, and brief check-ins between meetings when needed.
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Experience
17+ years
Licensed
Kentucky, Illinois
Languages
English