About Lara
Lara Waldenmaier is an Ohio-based licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, steady presence where clients can talk through worries, loss, relationship strain, and life transitions. Lara listens without judgment and focuses on what feels most pressing to each person.
In sessions she blends practical, down-to-earth techniques with space to talk about feelings and meaning. She uses client-centered work to follow what clients bring, cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally-focused methods to improve connection in relationships.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to help people ground themselves when emotions feel overwhelming. Lara has supported people facing grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and long-term health or caregiver stress. She also helps with intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Aging and geriatric issues, cancer and hospice-related needs are part of her broader focus. Her style is practical and respectful. She helps clients set small, doable goals and practices between sessions.
Conversations are straightforward and geared toward daily life, not only theory. Lara works with adults in Ohio and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online session formats, so people can choose what best fits their schedule and communication needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client's lead to identify what matters most. Online this means sessions are driven by the person's priorities and paced to their needs, whether it's sorting through grief or deciding next steps after a life change.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to notice and change thoughts and routines that keep problems going. In remote sessions this often looks like identifying a troubling thought, trying a small behavioral experiment between appointments, and reviewing what changed.
Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people understand and shift interaction patterns in relationships and close connections. When used online, it supports clearer communication and emotional safety during conversations about intimacy and conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help clients weigh options, set goals, and try methods that fit their situation and preferences. Adjustments are made over time based on how a client responds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be helpful for short check-ins, practicing skills, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can choose what fits their schedule and communication style.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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