About Laura
Dr. Laura Fernandez is a Florida psychologist with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical support for self-esteem, coping with life changes, parenting challenges, and issues related to identity and intimacy.
Her approach aims to help people feel steadier and more able to make decisions that fit their values. In sessions she listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
She helps identify clearer boundaries, builds skills for managing strong emotions, and works on short-term strategies for crisis moments. Therapy can include talking things through, practicing new responses, and planning small steps toward change. Her background includes work with people who face discrimination, minority stress, and compassion fatigue, and she supports clients dealing with grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and career transitions.
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and trauma-related symptoms when they are part of the picture. Dr. Fernandez describes herself as LGBT affirming and offers straightforward guidance about communication, codependency, and attachment patterns.
She combines experience and a practical focus to help people improve daily functioning and relationships. She practices in Florida as a FL Psychologist PY9982 and offers multiple formats for sessions including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are delivered in English and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches and how online sessions help
Dr. Fernandez uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One approach emphasizes skill-building for emotion regulation and anxiety management, teaching straightforward breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging exercises to reduce panic and worry. Another approach centers on trauma-informed work that identifies patterns from past events and develops safer ways to relate and set boundaries; this helps people who struggle with repeated relationship harms or intense stress responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more interactive work. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, paced reflection, or when writing helps the person organize thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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