About Laura
Laura Leadley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, family concerns, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She listens to each person's story and helps them identify practical next steps. Laura uses a collaborative, straightforward approach.
Sessions center on clear goals and small, achievable changes. She pays attention to patterns in relationships and how past experiences shape current reactions.
Her work addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family challenges, communication problems, and codependency. She also supports people facing substance use, eating and body image concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation and domestic violence.
The emphasis is on finding what helps in day-to-day life. In sessions she blends narrative and solution-focused thinking with other evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
That means she invites people to tell their story, then looks for steps that can reduce distress and improve relationships. She adapts strategies to each person’s situation and pace.
Laura practices in Iowa as an IA LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. People who want to begin can press the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Laura aims to make therapy practical and approachable for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Laura draws on narrative and solution-focused approaches along with other evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Narrative work invites people to tell the story of how they arrived at their current situation and highlights moments to reframe or reinterpret difficult experiences. Solution-focused work narrows attention to practical steps and small changes that can reduce stress and improve relationships in daily life.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over time methods can be adjusted so sessions remain useful and relevant to the problems being addressed.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions can use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work when in-person visits are impractical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English