About Laura
Laura Lininger is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of clinical experience. She earned a BA in Psychology from Indiana University and a Master of Social Work from Tulane University. Laura began her career focusing on child and adolescent work and later broadened to include adults.
She brings a steady, straightforward approach and speaks plainly about what therapy will feel like. Her early work with younger clients informs how she helps adults manage the effects of childhood trauma and family of origin issues.
Background and approach
She often uses mindfulness exercises to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolbox for changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is another method she offers for processing traumatic memories.
Sessions focus on manageable steps so difficult material does not feel sudden or overwhelming. Laura tailors pacing to each persons readiness. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or family struggles.
Additional areas she addresses include body image, codependency, grief from separation or divorce, and issues connected to gender identity. Laura works with clients from the LGBTQ community and welcomes people of all races, religions, and backgrounds. Her style is collaborative and practical - she explains options, teaches simple skills, and sets clear goals with each person.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, meaningful steps when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and gives clear exercises to change patterns that keep someone stuck.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Together they will adjust pace and techniques so therapy fits the clients needs.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English