About Benjamin
Benjamin Lara is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience. He offers straightforward, respectful care and focuses sessions on each person’s goals and needs. He uses a person-centered style that emphasizes listening without judgment.
Conversations are practical and goal focused. Benjamin helps people build on their strengths and take manageable steps forward. His work commonly addresses anxiety, depression, stress, and addictions.
He also helps people cope with trauma and grief, manage compassion fatigue, and navigate relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
How Benjamin works
Other areas he supports include sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and career stress. Benjamin integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing with acceptance and commitment ideas and mindfulness practices. That mix lets him help people change unhelpful patterns while also clarifying values and practical next steps.
Sessions tend to blend skill practice, plain-language feedback, and collaborative problem solving. He provides care to adults from Idaho and conducts sessions in English. Appointments are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site’s Start Therapy flow. Benjamin aims to make the first steps simple. He encourages small progress and works at a pace people can manage.
He focuses on helping people feel more in control and able to handle life’s challenges.
Benjamin lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Benjamin works with
The areas below are the ones Benjamin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Benjamin often combines cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people make changes and clarify what matters to them. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing new skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. ACT helps people notice what they value and take action toward those values, which can be helpful for stress, addiction, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Benjamin will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then recommend strategies to try. He treats the choice of tools as collaborative and adjusts the plan based on what is helpful in follow-up sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for longer sessions and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
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