Laura Powers, LCSW

Laura Powers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people cope with hard moments. She focuses on skills that reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and improve daily functioning. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful.

With 14 years of experience, she has worked with people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, addiction, and trauma. She also helps those struggling with sleep, parenting stress, relationship strain, and career transitions. Laura supports people dealing with obsessive thoughts, panic, postpartum depression, and seasonal mood changes.

She blends approaches so people can learn concrete tools and also feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a common thread in her work, helping people notice how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered techniques to build motivation and clarify values.

Sessions often focus on simple, repeatable strategies - breathing or grounding tools, short behavioral experiments, or step-by-step plans for managing difficult emotions. She teaches skills to reduce intense reactions and to increase choices in day-to-day life. Many people leave sessions with a short practice to try between meetings.

Laura emphasizes a trusting relationship first. She listens without judgment and helps each person set realistic goals. If someone needs a mixture of skills practice and emotional processing, she adapts the approach to match their needs and pace.

Using CBT and acceptance work in online therapy

Laura commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions tend to include short exercises and agreed experiments to try between meetings to build new habits.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clarify values and notice difficult feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT can be helpful for people coping with grief, persistent worry, or chronic stress who want to live more in line with what matters to them. Client-centered work is woven through sessions so the person feels heard and their goals guide the pace and focus.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about needs and preferences, try methods in-session, and adjust plans based on what feels helpful. This shared planning helps pick tools that match short-term goals and longer-term change.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people work through exercises face to face, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions. These options aim to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.