Laura Claxton
Mind-Body Counsellor
Mind-Body Counsellor
Areas of Focus
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Laura is a highly qualified counsellor with a first class honours degree in psychology and a Master of Counselling Degree from the University of Notre Dame, Australia.
Laura offers online counselling in a calm, grounded, and highly attuned way, helping clients feel safe, connected, and supported from the comfort of their own space. She brings a calm, intuitive, and compassionate presence to her work, creating a space where clients can feel safe, supported, and understood. Laura works with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. She has experience supporting people through grief and loss, domestic violence, sexual abuse, anxiety, neurodiversity, relationship difficulties, and the transition into early motherhood. Approach Laura’s approach is gentle, embodied, and client-centred. She supports clients to understand not only their thoughts and patterns, but also how emotional experiences are held and expressed through the body. Many people come to counselling already knowing why they feel the way they do, yet still feel stuck, tense, or exhausted. Laura’s work helps clients slow down and notice what is happening beneath the surface, including breath, body tension, emotional responses, and patterns of stress. Through awareness, mindfulness, and curiosity, clients can begin to reconnect with their body and develop a greater sense of safety, regulation, and self-understanding. Laura draws on a range of therapeutic approaches, including Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, mindfulness, and somatic awareness. |
Professional Background
Laura has worked across a range of settings, including schools, hospitals, universities, administration, and coaching. She has also worked with adolescents in a special needs college, supporting young people aged 15–18 with anxiety, ADHD, autism, and other neurodiverse presentations.
Her varied life and professional experience informs her warm, grounded, and practical approach to counselling.
Laura has worked across a range of settings, including schools, hospitals, universities, administration, and coaching. She has also worked with adolescents in a special needs college, supporting young people aged 15–18 with anxiety, ADHD, autism, and other neurodiverse presentations.
Her varied life and professional experience informs her warm, grounded, and practical approach to counselling.
What is Mind-Body Counselling?
Mind–Body Counselling
Mind–body counselling recognises that the body often carries experiences that words alone may not fully reach.
In sessions, Laura gently supports clients to explore both what they are thinking and what they are feeling physically. This may include noticing shallow breathing, muscle tension, tiredness, or changes in the body when stress or emotion arises.
This process can help clients feel more grounded, reduce internal tension, and create change that carries into everyday life.
Mind-Body Counselling is also particular effective for EAP counselling (counselling provided for you by your workplace)
Mind–body counselling recognises that the body often carries experiences that words alone may not fully reach.
In sessions, Laura gently supports clients to explore both what they are thinking and what they are feeling physically. This may include noticing shallow breathing, muscle tension, tiredness, or changes in the body when stress or emotion arises.
This process can help clients feel more grounded, reduce internal tension, and create change that carries into everyday life.
Mind-Body Counselling is also particular effective for EAP counselling (counselling provided for you by your workplace)
Why Online Counselling?
Online counselling, can be especially effective for mind–body work.
Many clients find that being in their own familiar space helps them feel more settled and less self-conscious. This can make it easier to speak openly, notice body responses, and engage in the counselling process at a natural pace.
Online counselling provides a helpful sense of space and safety, while still allowing clients to feel supported and connected.
Many clients find that being in their own familiar space helps them feel more settled and less self-conscious. This can make it easier to speak openly, notice body responses, and engage in the counselling process at a natural pace.
Online counselling provides a helpful sense of space and safety, while still allowing clients to feel supported and connected.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Counselling
Laura provides counselling through Employee Assistance Programs, supporting staff to better manage personal and workplace pressures.
This can be particularly helpful in school and care-based environments, where staff are often supporting vulnerable young people and managing high emotional demands.
Counselling can help staff develop greater awareness of their own responses, reduce stress, and contribute to a more grounded and supportive workplace environment.
Laura provides counselling through Employee Assistance Programs, supporting staff to better manage personal and workplace pressures.
This can be particularly helpful in school and care-based environments, where staff are often supporting vulnerable young people and managing high emotional demands.
Counselling can help staff develop greater awareness of their own responses, reduce stress, and contribute to a more grounded and supportive workplace environment.