Laura Todd

Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She works in California and has 16 years of professional experience. Laura speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical.

She believes people can grow and change throughout life. In sessions she guides clients toward greater self-awareness and helps them learn skills they can use day to day. The work focuses on small, useful steps rather than abstract promises.

Laura often combines mindfulness practice with concrete behavior skills to reduce overwhelm and improve focus. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take action. Motivational interviewing is used when a client wants extra help finding the motivation to change habits.

Clients commonly bring concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting strain, ADHD, addictions, mood issues, or difficulty with self-esteem. Laura also supports people dealing with obsessive or compulsive behaviors, phobias, postpartum depression, and young adult transitions.

Sessions aim to teach tools that fit into everyday life. Laura works with each person to set realistic goals and to practice skills between visits. Prospective clients should use the Start Therapy button to begin the matching process and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Approaches that translate to online work

Mindfulness Therapy centers on present-moment awareness and simple breathing or attention practices. It helps reduce reactivity, calm stress, and improve focus through short practices and reflection.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values. It mixes acceptance of difficult feelings with practical goal-setting and can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation challenges.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It teaches specific skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that contribute to mood and anxiety problems.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences and may combine elements from different approaches as progress is made.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove the commute so clients can use time for skill practice. Many people find that practicing mindfulness exercises and behavior tasks between sessions helps translate online learning into everyday routines.