- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Maine
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Self esteem
- Focus
- Depression
About Laura
Laura Henckler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She offers a straightforward, calm presence aimed at making conversations feel manageable for busy parents.
Her work centers on practical steps and clear goals. Sessions often cover coping skills for daily strain, ways to rebuild confidence, and tools for handling grief or trauma responses.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with attention differences, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Laura adapts her approach to each person's needs. She blends methods that encourage values-driven choices, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and teach emotional regulation skills.
That mix is used to create short-term goals and track small wins. She brings nearly two decades of practice in Maine to her telehealth offerings. Conversations are aimed at making change feel doable rather than overwhelming, with attention to body image, money stress, postpartum mood, and midlife issues when they come up.
Laura frames therapy as a partnership. She helps people clarify what matters, build new habits, and try out different ways of handling conflict or parenting strain. Her style is direct, compassionate, and goal-minded to help clients move toward clearer choices.
What Laura works with
Everything Laura lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Laura helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Body image
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps that align with those values. It helps with anxiety, low motivation, and the stress of parenting by shifting attention toward accessible, meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, body image concerns, and changing day-to-day habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try methods that fit the person's needs and preferences, adjusting over time if something isn't working. Clients help shape the plan and measure progress together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier around family life and work. Phone or chat can work well for quick check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, while video lets people practice communication and coaching exercises face to face. Text-based messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions for reminders or brief problem-solving.
Questions people ask about Laura
What problems does Laura help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship concerns, grief, trauma, and related issues like body image and money stress.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, using clear goals, skill practice, and values-based choices to make change feel doable.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional experience working in clinical settings and with individuals on a range of life and mental health concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, ME LCSW, and practices from Maine.
Which languages are supported and can international clients work with her?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing 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 the therapist's availability.
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