About Lakshmi
Dr. Lakshmi Frigo helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and intimacy or relationship concerns. She is a licensed social worker with 20 years of experience and draws on practical, evidence-informed methods to support change.
People who are LGBTQAI+ may find her perspective especially relatable, though she welcomes anyone seeking an empathic listener and partner in doing this work. Her sessions tend to be grounded and conversational.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and client-centered ideas to help people notice what matters most to them. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and EMDR when processing past traumatic memories. Dr.
Frigo describes herself as collaborative. She helps people set clear, manageable goals and tries techniques together to see what works. Expect gentle experiments, grounding practices, and short skill-building exercises between meetings.
She has worked in social work for two decades and holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials. Those letters mean she is a licensed clinical social worker in the states listed in her documentation and has long experience offering psychotherapy to adults. Dr.
Frigo practices from New Mexico and conducts sessions in English. She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Dr. Frigo’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify personal values and take small steps toward them. It includes mindfulness exercises and simple behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying practical exercises to change them; it is often used for anxiety and mood concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that supports processing distressing memories through guided techniques when that fits the client’s needs.Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients often move between approaches as their needs change, and Dr. Frigo frames this as an ongoing, collaborative decision.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible across distance and schedules. Video calls let people work interactively with exercises and EMDR-style processing when appropriate. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a problem, and text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or brief skill practice between sessions. These options allow more flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, New Mexico, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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