About Laura
Laura Salazar is a licensed counselor (LPC, LCPC) with nine years of clinical experience who centers therapy on the client’s perspective while offering evidence-based tools to reach practical goals.
Background and approach
She frames the work as collaborative, helping clients identify what they want to change and then pairing those goals with therapeutic techniques aimed at skill building and insight. Laura emphasizes empowerment and practical preparation so clients can face life’s challenges with greater confidence.
Her practice focuses on mood and stress-related concerns including depression, anxiety, grief and trauma, along with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting questions, self-esteem, addiction, and LGBT-related matters. She most often blends client-centered principles with cognitive and behavioral interventions and skills-based approaches to address emotional regulation and problem solving.
Laura tailors treatment plans to individual needs, drawing on trauma-focused methods when past harm affects current functioning. Licensed in Illinois and Texas, she brings a steady, collaborative approach that pairs active techniques with respect for each person’s expertise about their own life.
Prospective clients can expect goal-oriented work that emphasizes both understanding and practical change.
Integrating proven therapies into online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental atmosphere where the client’s perspective guides the work; it helps people explore values, goals, and personal meanings while promoting self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, action-oriented approach that identifies and adjusts unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be especially helpful for intense emotional states and relationship difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to consider symptoms, goals, and personal preferences, then select or blend methods that best fit the client’s needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays aligned with progress and changing priorities.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by delivering sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent care across different settings and support a range of therapeutic tasks from skill teaching and homework review to ongoing check-ins and crisis coping strategies.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Texas
- Languages
- English