Laura Reijonen
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About me
I hold space for both joy and pain with steadiness and care.
In me, you’ll meet someone who’s easy to talk to, bringing sometimes stillness, sometimes animation, always empathy. I’m often insightful, occasionally wise, and willing to be wrong.
I’m endlessly curious about what it means to be human, and I’m here to keep learning, especially through connection. Raised in two European cultures, I hold a deep appreciation for cultural diversity and the complexity of identity.
I’m diagnosed with ADHD and identify as AuDHD. I’m also ACA-informed, aware of how unspoken family roles can shape our sense of self and worth. As the Big Red Book says:
“Counselling makes us aware of dysfunctional family roles and the unspoken messages that drive us to doubt ourselves.”
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in therapeutic practice, integrating Gestalt, Person-Centred, and Transactional Analysis approaches. These humanistic modalities allow me to meet you in your world - to listen deeply, attune to your experience, and help uncover what’s already within you.
Everything you’ve lived through, and everything you hope for, lives in you now. From this present moment, change becomes possible.
I believe you are the expert on your own life. My role is to walk beside you, to reflect, and to sometimes offer new context or perspective when it may serve your growth.
I bring both lived experience and professional training to our work. Whether through my own journey or walking alongside loved ones, I hold personal understanding of depression, anxiety, trauma, neurodivergence, cultural identity, physical difference or disability, queerness, compulsion and addiction, codependency, suicidal thoughts, existential questioning, and spirituality.
If your specific concern isn’t listed here, please don’t hesitate to reach out. So much of our experience overlaps and defies categories.
Clients who have told me CBT “only took them so far” found progression in a relational approach such as mine.
They often begin to notice subtle, meaningful shifts in their day-to-day lives. These shifts evolve alongside the therapeutic relationship, opening space for new perspectives and ways of being.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Proof of income is required for concessionary rates.
In our first conversation, we'll start to unfold what brings you to counselling at this time in life. For us both to get a feel of the working relationship, I ask you to take up one of two options:
- A free 10-20 minute consultation of your preference, video call or just audio. As a text-based option, please use the contact function on this page, from which we can continue the conversation.
- A full first session of 50 minutes in-person, for half of the regular fee.
- If choosing the option of a free consultation, the first 50 minute session is the full regular fee.
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