Laura Pengelly

Laura Pengelly is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) with 22 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive approach and aims to create a respectful space where people can talk about what feels hard right now. Laura focuses on practical problem solving and helps people reframe how they look at an issue so they can try different solutions.

She listens for the many parts of a person’s life that shape how they feel and behave. That includes relationships, parenting stress, work pressure, grief, and mood concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. She also works with people dealing with trauma, anger, intimacy issues, self-esteem struggles, and family of origin or blended family conflicts.

Laura uses evidence-informed approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She often helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of responding to stressful situations. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with concrete steps between meetings.

Her background includes long-term work with individuals and families in Pennsylvania across a wide range of concerns. She brings experience with attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, fatherhood issues, communication problems, and mood disorders. She frames change as a stepwise process people can shape to fit their lives.

If someone is ready to begin, the next step is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Laura uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress by breaking problems into smaller steps and practicing different responses.

Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the stories they tell about their life. This approach is useful when past experiences or family patterns make someone feel stuck, and it creates space to try alternative meanings and actions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT-style skill work, narrative exploration, trauma-focused strategies, or a combination of approaches.

Confirm which session formats are offered before booking, since the profile does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and supporting work around daily schedules. Licensed professionals can also use online sessions to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and to focus on practical skill practice between meetings.