Laura Tellez, LCSW

Laura Tellez is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker who provides therapy in both English and Spanish. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma, and self-esteem. Laura writes treatment plans to fit each person's needs and offers a respectful, compassionate approach.

She draws on 12 years of practice to help people untangle painful patterns. Sessions are conversational and practical. She listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals that build confidence over time.

Laura uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and try different responses. She also works with solution-focused and trauma-focused approaches when those fit the goals you bring to therapy. Her style is warm, straightforward, and goal oriented.

Many clients come with worries about attachment, abandonment, or communication problems. She also addresses issues such as body image, caregiver stress, infidelity, and feelings of isolation. Laura will tailor the pace and tools to what matters most to each person.

Sessions can include skill practice, guided reflection, and planning for change between meetings. Laura encourages small steps that lead to concrete results and helps track progress along the way.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Laura often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it focuses on clear skills and small experiments you can practice between sessions.

She also integrates client-centered methods that prioritize your perspective and pace, creating space for you to set goals and lead the conversation. Mindfulness techniques are used to build awareness of bodily sensations and present-moment thinking, which can reduce reactivity to stress and trauma reminders.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust techniques as you progress in therapy in a collaborative way.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is helpful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls require less bandwidth, chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports shorter exchanges or ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving, or when travel is difficult.