About Laura
Laura Costello is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience in Pennsylvania. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, and problems with relationships and intimacy. She also supports those facing grief, trauma, addictions, sleep or eating concerns, and life changes like career shifts or parenting challenges.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. Laura creates an open space where clients can talk through feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
She encourages practical steps and small changes that can make daily life easier. In sessions she listens first and then helps shape a plan together. That plan can include coping skills for anxiety, strategies to manage anger, or ways to rebuild connection in relationships.
She also works with people navigating bipolar mood swings or attention challenges by focusing on realistic tools for each situation. Laura’s approach is collaborative. She partners with clients to set goals and checks progress along the way.
She respects each person’s pace and adjusts methods to fit real-life routines and constraints. People can expect clear communication about session formats and how therapy fits into their schedule. Laura uses methods that aim to reduce immediate distress and build longer-term skills, helping clients move toward steadier daily functioning and clearer choices.
Approaches that support anxiety and life changes online
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical, manageable strategies. One approach involves teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress - short breathing, grounding, and thought-management tools people can use during hard moments. These skills aim to reduce immediate distress and make daily tasks easier.Another approach centers on relationship and communication work. This includes helping clients notice patterns that cause conflict, practice clearer ways of asking for needs, and rebuild connection step by step. That kind of work often helps with intimacy issues, parenting tensions, and workplace stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, daily life, and comfort level. Adjustments are made over time so therapy stays relevant and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and have deeper conversations. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text work well for short updates, journaling between sessions, or when written reflection feels more natural. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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