About Laura
Laura Pennelle helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with concerns around relationships, self-esteem, and coping when life feels overwhelming. Laura introduces calm, practical steps so people can manage day-to-day strain more easily.
She brings ten years of clinical work and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW. Laura listens first, then tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She uses clear language and focused tools so sessions feel straightforward and useful.
Background and approach
Her practice pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and on emotion-focused strategies to help process strong feelings. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical approaches are woven in to help with regulation and present-moment coping.
Laura also supports people coping with abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and challenges around money or life purpose. She addresses communication problems, impulsivity, isolation, and issues that follow divorce or separation. Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer choices.
Laura partners with each person to set goals that fit their life and values. She meets people where they are and helps them move forward at a manageable pace.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Laura uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connections; this helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment, or repeating painful relationship cycles. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify and change thoughts that feed anxiety and mood problems, giving concrete steps people can practice between sessions. Emotion-focused techniques are used to help people name and process strong feelings so they feel less overwhelming and more manageable.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will discuss different methods and collaborate on what fits your goals and personality. Together you can try a strategy, check how it’s working, and adjust the approach as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video lets you read facial expressions and have a focused conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins into busy days or to use written reflection between visits. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English