Media Information & Enquiries

Laura Thomas – Parentology

Overview

Laura Thomas is a UK-based teen mental health specialist, author, and founder of Parentology, a support platform focused on helping parents support their teenagers’ mental health, wellbeing, and behaviour at home.

With over 20 years’ experience working in teenage mental health and family systems, Laura bridges the gap between overstretched services and families who are struggling behind closed doors. Her work centres on supporting parents — particularly during high-stress moments — so they can respond with confidence, clarity, and emotional safety.

Laura is known for her calm, practical, and relatable approach, translating tools from the therapy room into everyday language parents can actually use.

Areas of Expertise

Laura is available to comment on and contribute to media features relating to:

  • Teenage mental health and emotional wellbeing

  • Anxiety, panic attacks, shutdowns, and emotional regulation in teens

  • Parent–teen relationships and conflict at home

  • Supporting parents while services are stretched or inaccessible

  • Neurodiversity, sensory overload, and emotional overwhelm

  • Behaviour as communication (rather than “bad behaviour”)

  • Parenting teens through crisis, withdrawal, or school refusal

  • The emotional load carried by parents

  • Why supporting parents is essential to improving teen mental health

Media Experience & Style

Laura offers:

  • Clear, grounded expert commentary

  • Practical insight rooted in real-world family work

  • Non-judgemental, parent-affirming perspectives

  • Language that is accessible, warm, and human — not clinical

She is comfortable contributing to:

  • Print and online articles

  • Podcasts

  • Radio segments

  • Panel discussions

  • Expert quotes and commentary

About Parentology

Parentology is a modern support model for parents of teenagers, combining therapeutic insight with coaching-based, practical support.

Rather than focusing solely on the young person, Parentology recognises parents as the most important protective factor in a teenager’s mental health. Support includes 1:1 sessions, real-time app support, workshops, talks, and written resources designed to meet parents where they are — including the moments no service sees.

Author

Laura is the author of:

Her writing focuses on helping parents understand what’s really going on beneath behaviour, and how to respond without fear, panic, or power struggles.

Location

Based in the UK. Available for national and regional media.

Contact

For media enquiries, interviews, or expert commentary:

Email: info@parentologyworld.com
Website: www.parentologyworld.com and www.laurathomascounselling.co.uk