About Lara
Lara Kelso is a Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She practices as an LPC and works from Missouri. Lara focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and family concerns.
She keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative. Lara treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. She often uses practical tools to lower day-to-day stress and improve coping skills.
Background and approach
Lara draws on approaches that emphasize connection and clear problem solving. Attachment-based ideas help people understand how past bonds shape current patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Narrative and solution-focused methods guide clients to reframe difficult stories and set concrete short-term goals. This can be useful for people facing life changes, grief, career stress, or parenting strain. Sessions are aimed at small, achievable steps that make daily life easier.
Lara also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, self-esteem, and intimacy-related issues. She works with concerns tied to adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and family of origin problems. People who prefer practical, conversational therapy often find her approach helpful.
Approaches that fit online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions use conversations and reflective exercises to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes. In remote sessions this often includes thought records, short behavioral experiments, and step-by-step homework to build new habits.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT techniques, or solution-focused steps will be the primary focus and can adjust the plan as needed.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter, written check-ins or need to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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