Meet Laura: your compassionate guide to healing
Welcome to LauraPortsmouthCounselling, based in Farnborough, United Kingdom. Here, you'll discover a safe space designed for your personal growth and well-being. Learn about Laura's authentic approach, her dedication to helping you find your voice, and the path to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

A warm, empathic, and gentle presence
I aim to bring a genuinely warm, empathic, and gentle way of being to every session. My softly spoken voice and presence creates a calming and non-judgmental environment, allowing you to feel truly heard and understood. This unique quality helps foster a strong therapeutic relationship built on mutual trust and respect, essential for your journey towards healing and making positive, lasting changes that you can benefit from for the rest of your life.

Guiding you from worthlessness to self-belief
I am passionate about helping individuals who don't believe they have anything to offer anyone else, who feel worthless and see no point in their being here. She specializes in guiding you through these profound challenges, helping you uncover your inherent value and worth. Reconnecting with your own morals, values, principles and what matters to you helps you rediscover your own purpose, focus and meaning. This all contributes to then raising your self-esteem, self belief and self worth.
When you are set free from the belief of `not feeling good enough`, i.e, no longer ashamed of who you are, this greatly reduces your stress, anxiety, and low mood.

Understanding your unique self and `why` you feel as you do.
My most important philosophy is to accept each individual for who they are, acknowledging their own unique way of being and individualism. She helps you explore how your childhood experiences impacted you and how experiencing unsafety dysregulated your nervous system, due to circumstances beyond your control. This deeper understanding is crucial for fostering lasting change and healing, allowing you to stop being tortured by shameful, harsh and self berating thoughts.
My promise to you
"After reading about me, I want you to feel that you can trust that I will listen without any judgment, respect you, and value you for who you are and what you have experienced so far. You deserve a space where you feel completely safe to be yourself and explore your deepest feelings. Please do not suffer alone, carrying shame that does not belong to you. You so deserve freedom from all of it!"