About Laura
Laura Scales is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with five years of clinical experience based in Colorado. She left earlier careers to follow a passion for helping people build stronger selves and healthier relationships. Laura uses what she learned in other jobs and in life to connect with people who are coping with big changes and painful events.
Her path to therapy included caregiving, teaching outdoor skills, and work in senior living.
How Laura works
Those roles shaped how she listens and stays present during hard moments. Graduate training at Argosy University in Denver and clinical work at West Springs Psychiatric Hospital and community mental health clinics deepened her practice.
Laura focuses on relationship struggles, grief, anger, low self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBTQ concerns, family issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related challenges, parenting, career matters, and bipolar disorder. She offers individual, couples, and family work and provides intake, individual, and group therapy experience. Her style is practical and collaborative.
She treats people as the experts on their own lives and helps them build skills and clearer choices. Sessions aim to find what changes are possible and manageable right now. Outside of work she spends time in nature and draws on those experiences to stay centered.
Her background in outdoor guiding and caregiving informs a calm, steady presence in sessions.
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Laura uses evidence-based techniques that focus on understanding parts of the self and changing unhelpful patterns. Internal Family Systems helps people notice different inner parts, calm extreme reactions, and build a more compassionate relationship with themselves which can help with trauma, shame, and identity struggles.Cognitive behavior techniques focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Sessions use practical exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood swings.
Dialectical behavior ideas teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. These strategies are useful for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and coping with crisis moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods over time so therapy fits the person and the problems they want to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or a busy schedule.
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