About Laura
Laura Lininger is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience. She trained in psychology at Indiana University and completed a Master of Social Work at Tulane University. Laura has worked across age groups and brings a calm, direct style to sessions.
She began her career focused on children and adolescents and later expanded to see adults. That background guides her work with people dealing with childhood trauma and family of origin issues.
Background and approach
She often blends practical skills with mindfulness exercises in session. Laura uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. These methods are offered alongside trauma-focused work and mindfulness practice.
She helps people break down overwhelming problems into manageable steps. Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, and addictions. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, body image, codependency, and issues like abandonment and guilt or shame.
Laura welcomes clients who identify as LGBT and those from diverse racial, religious, and gender backgrounds. She works with people who want practical tools, steadier coping, and help processing difficult life events. Sessions are aimed at real change in day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, practical steps to move toward what matters, which can reduce the hold of anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That might mean combining mindfulness practice with CBT tools or layering trauma-focused methods when needed, all decided together in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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