About Laura
Laura Acero is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 20 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, depression, and life changes. She uses a down-to-earth approach that prioritizes listening and clarity.
Sessions focus on what feels most pressing to the person in front of her. Laura aims to make it easier to name feelings and decide practical next steps.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s pace. She also uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and emotion-regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy when strong emotions get in the way of daily life. These methods are chosen to match each person’s goals and preferences.
Laura has helped people navigate relationship shifts such as blended family issues, divorce and separation, and communication problems. She also addresses caregiver stress, body image concerns, impulsivity, loneliness, money and financial worries, and questions about life purpose and midlife changes. In sessions she creates a nonjudgmental space for people to speak honestly about what’s going on.
The work is practical and collaborative, with tools to try between meetings and time to reflect on what is changing. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability. The subscription model used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s priorities. The therapist creates space for people to describe what matters most, and then works alongside them to set goals and try small changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress when practical steps between sessions can make a difference.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It provides concrete techniques for coping with impulsivity, strong feelings, and communication problems.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single model.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow sessions to fit around work, caregiving, or other commitments. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility so people can keep momentum while managing daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, New York, Idaho
- Languages
- English, Spanish