About Lara
Dr. Lara Neely is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She focuses on practical tools that make day-to-day life easier.
Her approach is straightforward and aimed at reducing overwhelm so clients can regain more calm and control. She uses familiar, structured methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build values-based routines.
Background and approach
Client-centered work and elements of dialectical behavior therapy inform how she supports emotion regulation and relationships. Hypnotherapy is also part of her repertoire for people who are open to that method. Dr.
Neely brings four years of clinical experience that includes hospital emergency settings, community behavioral health clinics, and independent practice. That range means she has worked with a wide variety of concerns, from panic attacks and sleep problems to grief, trauma, and career stress. She has experience with people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions focus on building a personalized toolbox of skills. She helps clients practice coping methods, manage emotions, and set achievable goals. The work includes talking through problems, trying new behaviors, and learning simple techniques to ease anxiety and improve sleep.
Her style is nonjudgmental and practical. She frames clients as the experts on their lives and aims to support them in making steady changes that fit their values and daily routines.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and low mood by shifting the focus toward meaningful actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce panic, improve sleep, and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental conversation that helps people feel heard and understood while they work toward change.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods, adjust techniques, and decide which mix of strategies works best for the person's situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a full-session conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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