About Laura
Laura Guarino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She draws on nearly two decades of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma and addiction. Her work focuses on practical coping skills and clear, steady support for everyday pressures.
Laura uses a straightforward, people-centered style in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients identify small, realistic steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build routines that make daily life more manageable. Across 19 years in the field, Laura has worked in homes, hospital settings, and via teletherapy. That background shaped a flexible approach to care that can fit different life circumstances.
She has experience supporting people facing substance use, bipolar mood patterns, ADHD, self-harm concerns, and post-traumatic stress. Her toolkit includes client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. These are used to address issues such as parenting strain, family conflict, intimacy questions, low self-esteem, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Laura values practical change and clear goals. She often brings concrete exercises and short-term plans into sessions so clients can try new responses between meetings. Her goal is to help people see progress and regain a sense of control.
She offers services in English and practices in Florida. Laura’s approach is steady and action-oriented, aimed at helping people cope with current challenges while building skills for the future.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Laura often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space where clients lead the conversation and priorities are set together. This approach helps when someone wants to be heard and needs steady support while working through personal challenges.She also relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and test simple behavior changes. CBT offers clear exercises and short-term homework that many people can try between online sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, or change reaction patterns.
The right approach is decided together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. That collaborative process shapes which methods are used and how sessions are structured.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions may be a better fit when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These formats offer flexibility to fit work, school, or parenting schedules and make it easier to continue care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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