About Lara
Lara Fallon is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people through stressful life moments. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and addictions. Her work is straightforward and practical, aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.
She uses client-centered ideas to listen and understand each person’s goals. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices are used when strong emotions or intense stress need steadier tools. Lara often helps people dealing with relationship strain and communication problems. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, career changes, and the ripple effects of chronic illness or caregiving stress.
She can talk through issues tied to divorce, blended families, aging, or living with stigma related to HIV/AIDS. Her style is calm and direct. Sessions focus on what is useful right now - small changes, skills to try between meetings, and steps to reduce overwhelm.
She works collaboratively, so goals are shaped around what the person wants to achieve. Lara practices in Missouri as an LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker. She offers sessions in English and uses a variety of formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy starts by focusing on what matters to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, respect, and working at the client’s pace to identify goals and next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect and gives clear exercises to change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood.Lara will work with each person to choose or combine approaches that match their needs. Figuring out the best fit is a collaborative process - she checks in about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. If strong emotions are present, skills from dialectical behavior therapy or mindfulness can be added to help regulate feelings and reduce reactivity.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see nonverbal cues and maintain a fuller conversation. Phone sessions often fit into busy days and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to get consistent help while juggling work, caregiving, or health demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English