About Laura
Laura Todd is a California licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and supports adults facing depression, grief, parenting strain, and major life changes. Her work also covers ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a range of anxiety-related issues like social phobia and OCD.
She aims to help people notice what matters to them and take manageable steps toward it.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills and small changes that make everyday life feel more manageable. She uses plain language and collaborative goals so people leave with tools they can use between meetings. Her approach draws on therapies that teach thoughts-and-behavior skills and mindfulness practices.
That can look like learning new coping skills, practicing acceptance of hard feelings, or building routines to reduce overwhelm. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding motivation to change behaviors. Laura’s history includes working with people through trauma, grief, and parenting challenges.
She also supports those dealing with compulsions, phobias, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Her work tends to blend skill-building with emotional processing so people gain both understanding and practical next steps. Clients connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapy works best when goals are clear, and Laura helps set realistic steps and tracks progress across sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, life changes, and when avoidance gets in the way of daily functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with panic, phobias, OCD symptoms, and low mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods together, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means techniques may be mixed and adapted over time to fit a person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Laura is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls let therapists guide skill practice and read visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or send brief updates. These options help people keep therapy going when schedules are tight, travel is difficult, or they prefer shorter, frequent contact.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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