About Benjamin
Benjamin Lara is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, addictions, stress, and related concerns. He works in Idaho and offers sessions in English.
Benjamin uses a person-centered approach that keeps the client's goals first. Sessions are shaped around what the person wants to change, not a one-size-fits-all plan. He combines practical tools with straightforward conversation so people can try things between sessions.
Background and approach
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and test new behaviors. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change and building momentum. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are brought in to reduce struggling with difficult thoughts and emotions.
Benjamin has worked with many different concerns over his career, including trauma, grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and caregiver stress. He also supports people navigating kink and alternative sex culture and blended family matters. His approach aims to make coping skills usable in everyday life.
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who choose online work can schedule through the site's matching process and pick the format that fits their routine.
How Benjamin's approaches translate to online care
Benjamin commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing simple behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.He also brings a client-centered stance to remote sessions, which means therapy centers on the person's goals and pace. Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process - the therapist and client try strategies together and adjust based on what fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and shared materials during a session. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send shorter updates between sessions or have a written check-in when talking live is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while using the approaches above in ways that match each person's life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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