Laura Todd, LCSW

Laura Todd is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 16 years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by depression, anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations feel direct and useful for daily life. Parents and young adults often come for help with parenting strain, adjusting after loss, or tackling mood shifts. Her approach mixes practical skill-building with self-reflection. She uses methods like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions focus on learning concrete tools for emotion regulation, managing unhelpful thoughts, and making values-based choices. Laura believes change is possible at any stage of life. She guides people to notice patterns, practice new skills, and take small steps toward goals. That can mean reducing overwhelm, improving sleep and mood, or handling relationship and communication problems more clearly. In therapy she often helps people face grief, trauma, addiction-related concerns, and issues such as OCD symptoms, postpartum depression, or compassion fatigue. She also supports work on self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related concerns, and finding life purpose. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.