About Laura
Laura Shughart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, sleep troubles, anger, and mood concerns. She draws on eight years of experience to help clients make small, steady changes. Laura aims to meet people where they are and build on what already works in their lives.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on concrete tools and real-life problem solving.
Background and approach
Laura listens first, then helps clients set clear goals they can try between meetings. She uses approaches like Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices provide emotion regulation and grounding skills when feelings feel overwhelming. Laura also brings experience supporting people through grief, relationship strain, career stress, caregiver fatigue, and issues tied to adoption or attachment. She works with concerns related to intimacy, body image, and non-traditional sexual culture, and can address challenges tied to chronic illness, hospice care, or HIV/AIDS.
Based in Colorado, Laura offers practical strategies for coping with life changes and building healthier patterns. She helps clients identify small steps that lead to clearer routines and better daily functioning.
Practical therapy approaches you can use online
Laura often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based practices in online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, sleep issues, and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in each person’s priorities. That means the therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to you, and together you decide which strategies to try. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a team effort and can change as needs and goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and skills practice, phone works well for check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, live chat can handle brief conversations, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to try different ways of connecting until one feels comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English