About Lara
Lara Fallon uses client-centered care as the foundation of her work. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with self-esteem. Lara is a Missouri licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience and practical skills for everyday life challenges.
She offers straightforward support for relationship and family concerns, communication problems, and parenting strain. Lara also helps people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, and the emotional effects of chronic illness or aging.
How Lara works
She focuses on small, doable steps that fit into busy lives. Lara draws on cognitive behavioral methods to spot the thoughts and habits that keep problems going. She mixes in mindfulness and dialectical behavior ideas to help people manage strong emotions and stay grounded.
Solution-focused work helps prioritize what matters most and build plans that actually get used. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical skills. Conversations are collaborative - the person in the room sets the pace and priorities.
Lara aims to make therapy feel useful from the start, with tools that people can try between sessions. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Missouri and a wide range of client concerns across the adult lifespan. Lara keeps language plain and explanations brief so parents and busy adults can quickly decide if her style feels like a fit.
She provides in-person perspective on common life transitions while adapting tools to each situation.
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What Lara works with
The areas below are the ones Lara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Practical approaches that work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and tailoring support to their needs. It emphasizes listening, reflection, and building on a person's strengths so they feel heard and guided rather than pushed into a single method.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior that worsen anxiety, depression, or stress. It often uses short exercises and homework that people can try between sessions to see clear progress.
Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving how a person tolerates distress. These tools are useful for strong mood swings, chronic stress, or times when emotions get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lara will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. The plan can adjust as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a quick check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing encouragement. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work between sessions.
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