About Laurissa
Laurissa Bustillos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New Mexico. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She aims to offer a calm, respectful place to talk and to find practical ways forward.
Laurissa uses a collaborative style. She listens first and follows what each person brings to the room. Together, she and the client look for strengths and build small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused rather than long lectures. She draws on several approaches to match the work to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to manage strong feelings in the moment. Client-centered work keeps the client's values and choices at the center of planning. Laurissa helps with a range of concerns including relationships, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, parenting stress, self-esteem, and LGBT-related issues.
She also addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, post-traumatic stress, and learning to practice self-love. People who prefer practical tools and a supportive, down-to-earth conversation may find her approach helpful. She encourages realistic goals, steady progress, and building on what already works.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online in formats that fit different schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Laurissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with more useful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and the client's own goals so the person leads the pace and priorities of the work.She also integrates Mindfulness techniques to teach simple practices for grounding and reducing overwhelm in the moment. These tools can be brief and practical, making them easy to use between sessions. Choosing which methods to emphasize is a collaborative process; the therapist and client talk about goals and preferences and adjust the approach over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins, skills practice, or ongoing accountability. Together these formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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