Laura Sternberg, LPC
Missouri · 8 years in practice
Laura Sternberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who uses EMDR alongside other therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
License and registration
- LPC, Missouri
- 2019014122 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1124629381 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Laura
Laura Sternberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who uses EMDR alongside other therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She writes and speaks plainly in sessions and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier. Her manner is calm and direct, aimed at making hard conversations easier to start.
Clients often come with worries about depression, low self-esteem, grief, or struggles with relationships and intimacy.
Background and approach
Laura also works with concerns such as addictions, career stress, anger, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how past family patterns and attachment issues show up now, and she helps people make sense of those patterns. In treatment she blends approaches like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, mindfulness, narrative work, existential questions, and solution-focused tools.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to what someone needs in the moment - whether that looks like grounding skills, reprocessing traumatic memories, or setting small goals to change behavior. Sessions are practical and conversational. Laura aims to help people build coping skills, reduce symptoms, and regain a sense of control after difficult events.
She encourages clear goals and regular check-ins so progress is visible. With eight years of experience, Laura brings steady clinical judgment and attention to each person's story. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing care in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Laura lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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 EMDR, mindfulness, and narrative work online
Laura uses EMDR to help process traumatic memories and reduce intensity of distressing reactions; in practice this involves guided attention tasks paired with brief memory work to help difficult memories feel less disruptive. Mindfulness therapy focuses on simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce anxiety and increase emotional regulation, useful when stress or rumination are frequent. Narrative therapy helps people rewrite the way they tell their life story, separating problems from who they are and highlighting moments of strength and coping.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, history, and goals, then try techniques that fit those needs. Sessions may shift over time as priorities change, with regular check-ins to see what helps and what to adjust.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins or ongoing support between full sessions. These options let people keep momentum while balancing work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Laura commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and a range of other life challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and conversational, combining EMDR, mindfulness, narrative, existential, and solution-focused approaches to meet immediate needs and long-term goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working as a therapist in clinical settings and independent practice.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri, listed as MO LPC.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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