- Stress and anxiety
- LGBT issues
- Life purpose support
About Laura
Laura Perez is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, navigate LGBT issues, cope with grief and loss, and address low self-esteem and depression. Her work also includes support around caregiver stress, communication struggles, forgiveness, self-love, women's issues, and questions about life purpose.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and achievable right now. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try small changes to test what works. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented rather than overly technical.
In the room she encourages honest talk about feelings and choices. People can expect clear reflections, direct questions, and planning for next steps between sessions. She aims to make the conversation easy to follow and to leave each visit with one or two concrete things to try.
Her experience includes working with adults through life transitions, identity questions, and losses that disrupt daily life. She combines attention to emotions with practical tools for managing anxiety and improving communication. That combination is meant to help someone who feels stuck make gradual, observable progress.
To begin she asks people to describe what matters now and what change would look like. From there she and the client set short-term goals and track whether small experiments are helping. This approach is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a focus on workable steps toward clearer direction.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach is cognitive-behavioral style work, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and teaches concrete strategies for managing anxiety and depression. Another typical strand involves grief-focused support that helps people name losses, process emotions, and rebuild daily routines after change.Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.
If you are interested in online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make fitting therapy into daily life easier by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or letting someone choose audio-only when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals often use these options to help schedule consistent appointments while balancing work and family demands.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
13+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and LGBT-related concerns. She also focuses on caregiver stress, communication problems, forgiveness, life purpose, self-love, and women's issues.
How does she approach someone feeling stuck?
Her style is conversational and practical. She identifies repeating patterns, sets short-term goals, and suggests small experiments to test what helps.
What is her professional background?
She has 13 years of professional experience working with adults on life transitions, identity questions, and emotional concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LMFT licensed in California and practices there.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.