Laura Salazar, LPC, LCPC

Laura Salazar is a licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience who holds LPC and LCPC credentials, indicating state licensure to provide professional counseling in Texas and Illinois. She approaches therapy with the belief that each person is the expert on their own life and that a counselor's role is to provide guidance, tools, and support as clients pursue their goals.

Laura emphasizes collaborative treatment planning, working with clients to define clear objectives and selecting evidence-based methods that align with those goals. Her practice commonly draws on Rogerian or client-centered principles that prioritize empathy and the therapeutic relationship, cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, dialectical behavioral strategies to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance, constructivist ideas that explore personal meaning, and art-based methods when expressive work supports healing.

She has extensive experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, stress management, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, intimacy and couples issues, and behavior change. Laura aims to equip clients with practical skills and knowledge so they can respond to life’s challenges with greater confidence. She welcomes the chance to partner with individuals seeking a thoughtful, goal-oriented approach to therapy.

Therapeutic Approaches and the Convenience of Online Care

Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client's goals and perspective guide the work. This approach is useful for people seeking greater self-understanding, stronger self-esteem, and a collaborative relationship with a therapist.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, offering practical tools to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress by changing unhelpful thinking patterns and developing new coping skills.

Trauma-focused therapy attends directly to the impact of traumatic experiences and uses targeted techniques to help individuals process difficult memories and reduce the ongoing effects of trauma. It is often chosen when past events continue to affect daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Laura works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods align best with their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust the plan as progress and circumstances evolve.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and to continue care from different locations. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, allow consistent access to a licensed professional, and support a range of communication preferences to help clients engage in the work in a way that suits them.