About Laura
I'm a wife, mother, daughter, friend, art-lover, hiker, and lifelong ponderer. I know what it is to love people deeply, to wrestle with life's bigger questions, and to find that meaning doesn't always arrive ready-made. It has to be constructed, tended to, and sometimes rebuilt.
That's what draws me to this work.
I'm someone who naturally dwells on the deeper things: values, beliefs, the stories we tell about our lives and ourselves. I find genuine joy in trying to understand how another person sees their world. When you sit with me, I'm not running through a checklist. I'm listening for you, the whole, complex, human you.
I also believe strongly in hope. Not the easy, everything-will-be-fine kind, but the kind that's honest about difficulty and still leans toward possibility. Faith is part of how I make sense of the world, and it quietly informs my conviction that there is purpose in each person's story.
My time at the Centre for Student Counselling and Development at Stellenbosch University gave me the privilege of working with students from diverse backgrounds, including those navigating neurodiversity. Together we worked on the very practical challenges of navigating university life, as well as the deeper personal themes that so often surface during that season.
Therapeutic approach
"Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul." — Carl Jung, 1928
In an age where algorithms increasingly offer to understand us, I believe there remains something irreplaceable about one human being sitting with another: unhurried, present, and genuinely curious about who you are. My love of theory and research forms the foundation of how I work, not a rigid structure to fit you into.
My approach is integrative and evidence-based, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic frameworks and adapt them to suit you as an individual. Your personality, goals, and preferences play an active role in shaping how we work together, and we'll explore that collaboratively right from our first session.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools for understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours shape one another and how those patterns can change. Solution-focused brief therapy emphasises what is already working, building toward possibility rather than dwelling in the problem. Positive psychology broadens the focus beyond symptom relief toward genuine flourishing and wellbeing. I also draw on art-based techniques to complement and deepen the therapeutic process. Life design and constructivist approaches to career counselling recognise that our working lives are practical and purposeful, helping people find direction that is not only viable but genuinely meaningful.
I'd love to meet you where you are.
Qualifications
- MEd Educational Psychology
- BEdPsych Hons (with Distinction)
- PGCE (with Distinction)
- BA Psychology & Education