About Laura
Laura Costello is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and other life challenges. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and helps clients talk through painful experiences like trauma, grief, addiction, and bipolar-related struggles.
Laura supports practical goals such as better sleep, healthier eating patterns, parenting challenges, and managing anger and self-esteem issues. She aims to create a straightforward, open space where clients can say what is on their mind.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps and manageable changes rather than abstract concepts. Laura listens closely to understand each person’s everyday pressures and coping patterns. Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns and builds plans tailored to each client’s situation.
She combines listening with concrete strategies to help people handle career stress, life transitions, and attention-related difficulties like ADHD. The work often blends problem-solving, emotional processing, and practical habit change. Laura uses a collaborative style that keeps the client’s goals central.
She checks in often about what is helping and adjusts plans when needed. The aim is to help people develop tools they can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control. Her practice offers multiple ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Laura guides each person through small steps so change feels possible and sustainable.
Therapeutic techniques that translate to online care
Laura draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns and replacing them with manageable actions to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines; this helps with sleep, eating, and attention concerns. Another approach centers on processing difficult emotions and past hurts in a paced way so grief, trauma, and relationship wounds feel less overwhelming and more workable.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. She revisits what is or isn’t working and makes adjustments together so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people talk face to face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and make it simpler to fit care around work, parenting, or a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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