About Laura
Laura Hastings uses a practical, skills-based approach to help people make workable changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in California with 24 years of experience.
Background and approach
Laura focuses on helping people with relationship concerns, low self-esteem, career challenges, and coping with major life changes. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings.
Sessions center on simple, teachable tools people can use between meetings. The work is straightforward and aimed at real-life problems like workplace stress or caregiver strain.
Laura also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and aging or geriatric concerns. She helps with communication problems and the stress that comes from natural or human-caused disasters.
Women’s issues and workplace difficulties are part of her regular focus. Her style is collaborative.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and partners with them to build on existing strengths. The goal is to increase confidence, improve relationships, and make daily routines feel more manageable.
Sessions are practical and focused on short-term gains as well as long-term change. Laura aims to create clear steps clients can try, review, and adjust over time.
Online approaches and practical therapy options
Laura uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a core approach, focusing on how thoughts and behaviors shape feelings. CBT sessions often include straightforward exercises and small behavior changes to reduce stress, improve mood, and address workplace or relationship problems.The therapist approaches work collaboratively, helping clients choose which techniques fit their goals and needs. Together they set clear, manageable steps and adjust the plan as progress is made so that the approach matches the person's preferences and everyday demands.
Online sessions come in multiple formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - which makes therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls let people work through nuanced communication and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick reflections, check-ins between meetings, and flexible timing. These options help people keep continuity of care and apply skills between sessions while balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English