About Laura
Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage everyday stress and intense challenges. She works with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, grief, and life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to meet different communication needs.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. She helps people build skills to handle strong emotions and daily pressures. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent and what changes would matter most day to day.
How Laura works
Laura uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. She teaches simple exercises people can try between sessions to reduce worry, improve mood, and strengthen relationships. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing postpartum depression, social anxiety, OCD patterns, and questions about life purpose and self-worth. Her background gives her experience with both practical coping strategies and deeper emotional work.
Therapy sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Laura lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions by shifting focus to meaningful steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and obsessive patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, with techniques for distress tolerance and emotion regulation that many people find helpful during stressful times.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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