About Laura
Laura Cho-Stutler is a Hawaii-licensed psychologist with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports parents, addresses depression, and helps people cope with life changes and career coaching. Her approach aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and practical.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings. Sessions focus on real problems and clear steps forward. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at what helps most day to day.
Background and approach
Cho-Stutler draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide treatment choices. She tailors what happens in sessions to each person's goals and pace. That might mean shorter check-ins, structured problem solving, or focused work on thinking patterns that feed anxiety.
Her background includes work with professional coaching and executive issues alongside clinical concerns. That blend helps when life changes involve work stress or shifting responsibilities at home. Practical strategies and scheduling that fit a busy life are often part of the plan.
People meet her for help with communication problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. She also has experience supporting people who have post-traumatic stress or social anxiety and phobia. The emphasis is on working together to find approaches that make daily life easier.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
Laura Cho-Stutler uses proven therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. One common method is structured problem solving, which breaks complex issues into small, manageable steps and helps people practice new behaviors between sessions. This can be useful for daily stress, parenting challenges, and workplace strain.Another approach focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions involve noticing recurring thoughts, testing them with real-life experiments, and building new habits of thought. That kind of work often reduces worry and social anxiety over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss options with each person and adjust methods based on goals, needs, and what feels comfortable. This collaborative process helps identify whether shorter check-ins, coaching-style sessions, or longer therapy blocks will be most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins between meetings. These formats help maintain momentum, manage scheduling, and support consistent progress without requiring travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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