Laurel Lass , LCSW

Laurel Lass is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She focuses on relationship struggles, grief, low self-esteem, and issues that often affect women. Laurel aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly about what is hard for them.

Laurel believes the client is the expert on their life and brings that perspective into each session. She helps people identify strengths and small steps that lead to clearer choices and greater confidence. Sessions are practical and grounded, with time spent talking through current challenges and learning ways to feel steadier day to day.

Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused methods to improve connection and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques are used when they fit the person’s needs. Laurel also uses Internal Family Systems concepts to help separate painful parts of experience from a person’s core values.

People often come for help with panic, persistent worry, grief after loss, or repeating patterns in relationships. She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Laurel pays attention to how past hurts shape present behavior and helps people practice new responses.

Laurel is licensed in California as an LCSW. She communicates plainly and works to make therapy feel usable during real life. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with work paced to each person’s needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns show up in adult relationships. It helps people understand why they react strongly in certain situations and learn safer ways to relate. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotions in the moment and how they shape bonds with close others; it is useful for deepening emotional awareness and shifting patterns that cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laurel will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend methods that feel like a good fit. She uses a collaborative process so people can try approaches and adjust as therapy progresses.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone meetings can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, and steady contact when pauses in life make longer sessions hard to schedule.