About Laura
Laura Guarino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 19 years of clinical experience based in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns. She uses practical strategies to help parents and individuals cope with daily pressures and emotional reactions.
She favors a straightforward, listening-first approach. Sessions center on the client's concerns and priorities, and on building coping skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Laura draws from evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to reduce symptoms and teach new ways of responding to stress. Her background includes many years working across settings that include teletherapy, home visits, outpatient care, and inpatient hospital work. This variety has shaped a flexible style that can adapt to different needs and situations.
She has experience helping people with substance misuse, self-harm risk, post-traumatic stress, bipolar presentations, and panic symptoms. Laura also brings experience supporting parents and others who care for children, understanding how adult difficulties affect family dynamics. She often integrates solution-focused and motivational techniques to set small, achievable goals and keep progress moving forward.
She communicates in English and works with adults presenting a range of concerns including life transitions, attachment issues, communication problems, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Her approach aims to make problems feel more manageable and to help people find clearer next steps.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps clarify priorities, and supports the client in finding their own solutions. This approach helps with broad concerns like stress, self-esteem, and family impact.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses practical exercises and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and handle impulsivity associated with ADHD and other conditions.
Mindfulness therapy trains simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Short mindfulness practices can help with anxiety, panic symptoms, and managing strong emotional states.
Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and daily life. Plans are adjusted as progress is seen and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or chat can be useful for brief check-ins or homework support. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into work, school, and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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