About Laura
Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people manage anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, and life changes. She works with those facing depression, grief, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her direct approach keeps goals practical and focused on what people can do day to day.
With 16 years of experience, she draws on treatments that emphasize learning skills and shifting behaviors. Sessions typically include clear strategies for handling overwhelming feelings and steps to test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and acceptance ideas are mixed with tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Clients often work on improving self-esteem, reducing avoidance around phobias or social fear, and finding steadier routines after a big life shift. She also supports people dealing with obsessions, compulsions, postpartum depression, and trichotillomania by breaking problems into manageable tasks.
Practical problem solving is paired with attention to values and meaning. Therapy can include short skill-building exercises, goal setting, and gentle experiments to see what works in real life. Conversations move toward clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and calmer reactions to stress.
Laura explains techniques simply and gives concrete homework to practice between meetings. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and may use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Anyone curious about getting started can follow the site process to match and schedule a session.
Online approaches that teach skills and build values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions toward them even when feelings are strong. It helps people who feel stuck by asking what matters most and then practicing steps that align with those values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches people to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, obsessive habits, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing encouragement between meetings.
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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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