Laura Brum, LPC

Laura Brum is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and mood disorders. She aims to make therapy accessible and straightforward for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Sessions are warm and interactive and focus on practical steps that fit daily life.

Laura draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and EMDR when trauma or intense emotional reactions are present. The work balances problem-solving with building stronger emotion regulation skills.

Her style is respectful and low on jargon. She avoids labels and centers each session on what matters to the person in front of her. Typical sessions include goal-setting, skills practice, and short experiments to test new ways of coping between meetings.

People come to her for help with panic, OCD and intrusive thoughts, bipolar mood swings, chronic illness or pain, postpartum depression, and difficulty with communication or control. She also supports those facing loneliness, career transitions, and struggles with self-worth and sexuality.

Laura practices from Oregon and offers therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works with each person to build a plan that fits their rhythm and needs, focusing on steady steps forward rather than quick fixes.

How approaches like CBT and EMDR work online

CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then practice alternatives. Online CBT focuses on simple exercises, short behavior experiments, and skill-building that can be used between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood swings.

EMDR is a trauma-focused method that supports processing upsetting memories and the feelings tied to them. When used online it includes guided attention or movement techniques alongside careful preparation and grounding skills to manage distress during and after sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose whether CBT, client-centered work, DBT skills, or EMDR makes the most sense for current goals and symptoms. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and skills coaching, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, brief check-ins fit well by text or live chat, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and practical access to care.