Laura Duncan, LMSW
Therapist in Michigan
Laura Duncan, LMSW, offers attachment-based care that centers on understanding how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
- Licensed inMichigan
- License6801114488
- NPI 1093240525
- Experience9+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Laura
Laura Duncan, LMSW, offers attachment-based care that centers on understanding how relationships shape feelings and behavior. She focuses on practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at people who want clear steps and steady support.
Laura draws on client-centered methods to help people talk through what matters most to them. Sessions often include cognitive-behavioral tools to break unhelpful thought patterns and mindfulness practices to manage stress in the moment.
Background and approach
She works to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to daily life. Over nine years in practice, Laura has supported people facing complex emotional situations, including trauma, attachment challenges, caregiving strain, and career or relationship stress. She helps clients build coping skills for chronic illness, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and changes linked to adoption or blended family issues.
Laura also attends to concerns around body image, intimacy, and sexual diversity such as kink and BDSM when those topics come up. Therapy with Laura emphasizes listening first, then trying small, testable changes. Clients set goals and she adapts tools to fit each person’s pace and needs.
Many sessions include role-play for communication, brief behavioral experiments, and skill practice between meetings. Laura practices in Michigan and offers sessions in English. She accepts international clients and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing care easier to fit into busy lives.
Credentials
- LMSW (Michigan)
- License 6801114488 · expires April 2028
- NPI
- 1093240525 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Laura lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How attachment work and practical therapies fit into online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and current relationships influence feelings and reactions. Online sessions with Laura can help identify relational patterns and try new ways of connecting or responding. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's goals and experience, creating space for people to feel heard and understood as they set their own priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses clear exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online work CBT can include short behavioral experiments, thought records, and skills practice between sessions to track progress. Laura will help choose which methods to try based on the issues you bring and your personal goals, so the plan fits your pace and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins or emotional processing in writing, and text-based messaging lets people keep up work between appointments. These options make it easier to maintain steady support while juggling work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and issues like ADHD and bipolar disorder.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered care, CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing for a practical, supportive experience.
How much experience does she have?
Laura has nine years of clinical experience working with people facing a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She is licensed as an LMSW in Michigan and conducts sessions from that base.
Are sessions available in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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