About Laura
Laura Todd is a California-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 16 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, depression, and ADHD. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use right away. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more able to manage daily life.
Her sessions focus on building useful skills and clearer self-awareness. She uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small changes, and build new routines.
Background and approach
That can mean learning ways to handle overwhelming emotions, managing attention and focus, or developing healthier reactions in relationships. Laura blends evidence-based strategies with mindfulness and values work. She often draws on acceptance and commitment methods alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior tools.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding the momentum to change a habit or make a hard decision. She works with adults facing grief, trauma, addiction, low self-esteem, anger, and life transitions. Additional areas include postpartum depression, obsessions and compulsions, social anxiety, and young adult issues.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish for people in California. Clients can expect clear goals and concrete practice between meetings. The aim is to build confidence in small steps and create patterns that fit each person’s life.
Laura helps people break problems into manageable parts and track progress over time.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them. It helps when people feel stuck or unsure what matters most and want a clear path forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It provides hands-on exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills for anxiety, depression, and attention difficulties.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills. It is useful for handling strong emotions, reducing conflict, and improving day-to-day functioning.
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, then tailor methods as they go. That means trying techniques together and adjusting them to fit each person’s life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversations and skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat helps with quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep working on goals consistently.
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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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