About Laura
Laura Contreras is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She brings practical tools and steady support to sessions. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She focuses on relationships, parenting challenges, grief, and life transitions. She also addresses self-esteem, intimacy concerns, career stress, and trauma and abuse. Laura uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to help clients notice patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and commitment strategies. She also draws on attachment-informed thinking and a client-centered stance to keep the work focused on each person's values and goals. Conversations often include skill-building, problem-solving, and practical experiments to try between sessions.
Laura has five years of documented clinical experience as an LMFT licensed in Wisconsin. She works with adults who are navigating worry, panic, social anxiety, or the fallout from relationship difficulties. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy understandable and useful.
People who come to her can expect clear structure alongside space to process emotions. She supports efforts to repair relationships, reduce anxiety symptoms, and move toward personal goals. Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps that add up to steady change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, panic, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic attacks or social anxiety. It often uses concrete exercises and practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of relating and connecting, which supports work on intimacy and communication.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's situation. Over a few sessions the approach can be adjusted based on what feels most useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are practical for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when scheduling needs to be more flexible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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