Laurel Lass, LCSW

Laurel Lass is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 24 years of professional experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings a strengths-based perspective, honoring that each person is the expert on their own life while offering guidance, tools, and support to navigate difficult transitions and emotional pain.

She works with a wide range of concerns including abandonment and attachment issues, communication and control struggles, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, questions about life purpose, mood and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress, and growth in self-love and women's issues. Her approach emphasizes collaboration - listening carefully to each client’s story, identifying existing resources, and building practical strategies to increase confidence and motivation.

Laurel frames therapy as a courageous step toward a more fulfilling and happier life and focuses on empowering clients throughout that process. As an LCSW, she combines clinical training with compassionate, down-to-earth care to help clients move toward meaningful change and greater emotional wellbeing.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Laurel often draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. This approach helps when attachment wounds, abandonment fears, or communication problems affect intimate and family relationships.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help clients identify and shift unhelpful emotional patterns in relationships. EFT can be especially useful for improving closeness, resolving recurring conflicts, and strengthening emotional bonds.

Mindfulness Therapy is incorporated to increase awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations and to build skills for managing anxiety, stress, and mood fluctuations. These practices support greater emotional regulation and present-moment coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Laurel works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then tailors methods from these models to fit each individual or couple.

Online therapy with Laurel is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules and varied comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from wherever clients are located within the therapist's service area, and fit therapy into everyday life.