About Laura
Laura Pennelle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, and coping with life changes. She brings a calm, respectful approach and aims to meet each person where they are. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, designed for people who feel overwhelmed and need clear steps forward.
She uses short-term skills and longer conversations depending on what helps most. Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and looking at how past relationships shape current struggles.
Background and approach
She invites clients to name goals and to try small changes between sessions. With ten years of experience, she has supported people dealing with mood shifts, isolation, and major life transitions. She also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and financial or work-related strain.
Her background includes work with communication problems, impulsivity, and issues connected to divorce and separation. Her approach draws from methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, attachment-based perspectives, emotionally-focused ideas, and client-centered listening. She adapts these tools to each person rather than using a single fixed method.
The result is a mix of practical tools and reflective conversation. For people who feel stuck by anxiety, difficulty trusting others, or repeated patterns that drain their energy, she helps untangle those patterns and build manageable habits. The focus is on small, steady changes that can improve daily life.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional patterns. It helps people who feel stuck in repeating relationship cycles or who struggle with fears of abandonment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, low mood, and day-to-day stress by teaching practical strategies. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and shifting the emotions that drive relationship problems and personal distress, helping people feel more connected to their needs.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean starting with skill-based CBT tools, adding attachment-focused reflection, or mixing approaches as understanding grows.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging let people share updates between appointments or get support without a live call. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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