- Practical next steps
- Warm listening
- CBT and client-centered
About Laura
Laura Shaw is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and low self esteem. Her style is calm and down-to-earth, focused on listening and practical next steps.
She creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through difficult feelings. Sessions are meant to help clients name what matters most, sort out priorities, and try small changes that make daily life easier. Laura emphasizes support and practical tools rather than complicated jargon.
Her background includes long experience working with grief and loss, caregiver stress, and life changes such as separation and divorce. She also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and concerns around life purpose and self-love. That range informs how she frames short-term goals and longer personal work.
Laura draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on each person’s experience. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. Together these approaches guide steps clients can try between sessions.
People often come for help regaining confidence, improving relationships, or managing strong emotions. Laura aims to support each person’s pace, offering steady guidance while encouraging practical changes that fit everyday life.
She creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through difficult feelings. Sessions are meant to help clients name what matters most, sort out priorities, and try small changes that make daily life easier. Laura emphasizes support and practical tools rather than complicated jargon.
Her background includes long experience working with grief and loss, caregiver stress, and life changes such as separation and divorce. She also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and concerns around life purpose and self-love. That range informs how she frames short-term goals and longer personal work.
Laura draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on each person’s experience. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. Together these approaches guide steps clients can try between sessions.
People often come for help regaining confidence, improving relationships, or managing strong emotions. Laura aims to support each person’s pace, offering steady guidance while encouraging practical changes that fit everyday life.