- Client-centered care
- Practical skills
- Trauma-informed support
About Laura
Laura Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings nine years of hands-on experience to therapy. She centers sessions on each person’s goals and priorities. She aims to give practical tools people can use between appointments to handle life's stressors and changes.
Laura believes clients are the experts on their own lives and offers guidance to help them reach clearer goals. Sessions focus on building skills for anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma recovery. She also supports people navigating relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and questions around identity and self-esteem.
Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior frameworks. She adapts methods to each person’s aims so therapy fits real life. That can mean working on thought patterns, learning emotion regulation skills, or developing step-by-step plans for behavior change.
Laura describes therapy as a collaborative process. Together with the client she outlines treatment plans and checks progress along the way. The goal is to leave sessions feeling more able to manage problems as they come up.
She is licensed in Illinois and Texas as LPC and LCPC. Sessions are conducted in English and geared toward helping people make steady, workable changes in daily life.
How therapy approaches guide online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and perspective and helps create a collaborative plan for change. It emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the client and can be useful for concerns like low self-esteem, relationship questions, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors. It offers practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms by changing unhelpful thinking and building new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It often focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That discussion can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan over time.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, shorten travel time, allow quick check-ins when needed, and provide continuity when schedules change. Ask about the specific formats offered when you schedule so sessions match your practical needs and routines.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Illinois, Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Laura commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, LGBT issues, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, family conflict, and self-esteem.
What is her general therapy style?
Her work is client-centered, meaning sessions focus on the person's goals and perspective while incorporating practical techniques to reach those goals.
What background and experience does she have?
She has nine years of clinical experience using a mix of client-centered approaches and evidence-based methods like CBT and DBT to address mood, trauma, and behavior change.
Which credentials and location apply to this clinician?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and is licensed in Illinois and Texas, with practice noted in Illinois.
In what languages are sessions available?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not accepted at this time.
What session formats are used?
The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking to know whether in-person or online appointments are available.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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