Laura Todd, LCSW
Licensed in California · 16 years in practice
Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 16 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 27946 · expires January 2027
- NPI
- 1902024219 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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About Laura
Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 16 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and intimacy or relationship struggles.
Laura uses clear, practical methods to help people feel more capable. Sessions focus on learning skills, noticing patterns, and trying small changes that fit real life.
Background and approach
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her approach blends behavior-focused tools with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. That means clients learn concrete ways to manage thoughts and emotions while also practicing present-moment awareness.
Motivational techniques help people find personal reasons to shift habits when change feels hard. Laura draws on a broad background working with trauma, grief, postpartum depression, and obsessive or compulsive symptoms. She also addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose.
Her style aims to be straightforward, compassionate, and goal-oriented. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who prefer to begin online can follow the site's matching steps to connect and schedule an initial session.
Over the years she has helped many people build new skills for handling stress, set clearer priorities, and make changes that fit their values and day-to-day lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Laura lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Communication problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take action toward those values, even when difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical emotion regulation and interpersonal skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, personal preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Then she will suggest methods to try and adjust them based on what fits and what helps most.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed?
Laura works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, addictions, trauma and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses straightforward, skills-based methods that combine behavior-focused exercises with mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people manage thoughts and emotions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of professional experience providing mental health support in California.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California and practices there.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what the client prefers.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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