About Laura
Laura Costello is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with individuals facing relationship and family conflicts, intimacy concerns, addiction struggles, mood disorders, and ADHD. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people find clearer thinking and steadier routines.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that make daily life easier. Laura helps clients set realistic goals and builds strategies to manage symptoms like sleep disruption, anger, or low self-esteem. Her background includes many years working with adults on grief, trauma and abuse recovery, career stress, and parenting challenges.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and skills practice. The emphasis is on collaborative problem solving rather than labels or lengthy explanations. Laura tailors the pace to each person, offering both short-term problem-focused work and longer-term support when needed.
She explains options clearly and checks in regularly about what is and isn’t working. The aim is steady progress you can measure. If you want a therapist who listens, helps you make small practical changes, and stays focused on everyday functioning, Laura provides a grounded, approachable presence to support that work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One commonly used approach centers on skill-building for managing stress and anxiety through behavioral strategies and routine changes; this helps with sleep, concentration, and daily mood. Another approach emphasizes structured problem solving to address relationship tension, parenting challenges, career stress, and the everyday effects of ADHD by breaking issues into manageable steps and testing solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try, adjust the plan as progress is seen, and focus on techniques that fit a person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share updates and practice skills between longer sessions. These options help match therapy to a busy schedule and different communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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