About Kiara
Kiara Laster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, and family stress. She offers straightforward, compassionate support for parents and individuals feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Kiara listens carefully and helps clients find steps that fit their life.
Kiara uses practical methods that focus on thoughts, habits, and daily choices. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping strategies.
How Kiara works
Mindfulness approaches help people calm racing thoughts and reconnect with the present moment. Her background includes four years working in community mental health. That experience involved supporting people through intense emotional challenges and complicated life situations.
It shaped a direct, problem-solving style that still centers on each person’s individual story. Sessions are aimed at clear goals and steady progress. Kiara often blends solution-focused techniques with narrative work to help people reframe their experiences and set manageable steps forward.
Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding the motivation to change long-standing patterns. She works with concerns such as family stress, self-esteem, body image, caregiver strain, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Kiara communicates plainly and avoids jargon so parents and busy adults can use what they learn right away.
Located in California, she practices in English and offers several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Kiara lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kiara works with
The areas below are the ones Kiara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Kiara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. CBT helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and increase calm in daily life.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. That method focuses on what matters to the client and draws out their own reasons for making changes. Kiara approaches treatment as a collaboration and will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress without extra travel time.
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