About Laura
Laura Acero is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and big life changes. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what’s worrying them and begin to find clearer ways forward. She focuses on practical work in sessions, using evidence-informed methods to address symptoms and daily challenges.
That includes helping people develop tools for managing strong emotions, dealing with loss, and handling parenting pressures.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented while staying attuned to each person’s pace. Clients who struggle with relationship communication, blended family transitions, or financial and life-purpose worries can expect focused problem-solving and skill building. Laura also supports people facing isolation, body image concerns, caregiver stress, and midlife changes.
She adapts her approach to each situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She brings methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and emotionally-focused ideas into her work. Those approaches inform practical exercises, emotion regulation practices, and ways to shift unhelpful thought patterns.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are provided through online formats to suit different needs. Laura works from Arizona and uses her experience to help people take manageable steps toward feeling steadier in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. It helps people feel heard, which can make it easier to try new coping strategies and work through painful feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical tools for managing anxiety and low mood, such as thought records and activity planning that people can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication techniques that are useful when life feels overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit best with their goals and daily reality. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow quick exchanges and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, New York, Idaho
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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