About Laura
Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, grief, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 16 years of experience to conversations that often feel overwhelming. Laura aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can take small steps forward.
Her work focuses on building skills people can use outside sessions. She guides clients through strategies for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing symptoms that interfere with daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include tracking patterns, trying new behaviors, and practicing ways to respond to cravings, intrusive thoughts, or mood shifts. Laura blends several evidence-based approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses mindfulness and acceptance skills to reduce reactivity and increase focus on values.
Cognitive tools help identify and shift unhelpful thinking. Dialectical skills provide concrete ways to tolerate distress and improve emotional regulation. Over 16 years she has supported people with a wide range of concerns, from ADHD and obsessive-compulsive behaviors to postpartum depression, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
She also assists those dealing with grief, intimacy issues, and self-esteem struggles. Laura helps individuals clarify goals and practice the habits that move them toward those goals. People meet her when they want clear, doable steps rather than vague advice.
She encourages practical work between meetings and adjusts methods to fit each person’s pace and situation.
Practical approaches for online healing and growth
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them and take actions that align with those values. It uses acceptance of unpleasant feelings alongside committed steps toward meaningful goals, often helping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches simple exercises to test unhelpful beliefs, build new habits, and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds concrete skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance that can be useful for strong emotions and relationship strain.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Laura will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences, and she will adjust tactics as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and test what works in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support frequent, brief contact and skill practice between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish