Dr. Lakshmi Frigo, LCSW, LICSW

Dr. Lakshmi Frigo helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and intimacy or relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with addiction, caregiving strain, isolation, gender dysphoria, and related mood or post-traumatic struggles. Dr. Frigo is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience and practices from New Mexico. Her style is conversational and grounded. She offers straightforward tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance-based approaches. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can use between meetings, such as noticing unhelpful thoughts, experimenting with small behavior changes, and practicing acceptance skills. Dr. Frigo blends talk therapy with experiential methods. She may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma, along with client-centered listening to make space for whatever a person brings. She pays attention to how identity and life stressors shape self-worth and day-to-day choices. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical plans tailored to their goals. She invites collaboration and sets clear, achievable steps rather than vague promises. Over 20 years she has worked across a range of mood and trauma concerns and with people managing aging, co-morbid health challenges, and recovery from disasters. Her credentials are LCSW and LICSW, indicating her clinical social work background. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions usually involve identifying unhelpful thought patterns, testing them with behavioral experiments, and assigning simple practice tasks to do between meetings. This approach is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress management.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. Work in ACT often includes values clarification, mindful awareness exercises, and small committed actions toward what matters. This helps with ongoing worry, low motivation, and life transitions.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is used for processing traumatic memories. In teletherapy it involves guided bilateral stimulation paired with focused memory work, and can reduce the intensity of distress tied to past events.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try different methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist set priorities together and track progress over time.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and exercises, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and skill coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options let people continue consistent work from different locations and schedules.