Laurel Lass

Laurel Lass is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical support that builds confidence and motivation. Laurel listens for strengths in each person's story and helps them use those strengths to make change.

Clients can expect a calm, steady presence that encourages honest conversation. She offers straightforward guidance for coping with grief, panic, mood shifts, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Communication problems, attachment or abandonment concerns, and issues around guilt and shame are also common topics in sessions.

Laurel draws on approaches that center emotions, relationships, and inner parts to help people feel more connected to themselves and others. She works with trauma-related concerns and uses mindfulness practices to bring more steady attention to the present moment. The goal is to help people notice patterns, practice new ways of responding, and build skills that fit daily life.

Her style is collaborative and respectful. Laurel helps people set clear goals, try small experiments, and track what changes. She supports women navigating life purpose, self-love, and transitions, with an eye toward increasing confidence and reducing overwhelm.

Laurel practices in California as an LCSW and conducts therapy in English. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment where practical steps are outlined and priorities are set.

How emotion-focused approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the way early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps when loneliness, abandonment concerns, or repeated relationship patterns cause distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on naming and working with emotions in the moment to change interaction patterns and reduce relationship pain. Mindfulness Therapy teaches gentle attention to present moment experience to reduce reactivity and ease anxiety and mood symptoms.

Figuring out which approach fits best is part of therapy. Laurel will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll try approaches, check what helps, and shift course when needed so work stays practical and relevant.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how Laurel is seeing clients. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow for consistent check-ins during life transitions. Some formats may be better for quick check-ins while others allow deeper emotional work; discuss what works for scheduling, comfort with video, or shorter sessions during the first appointment.