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Laurel Lass, LCSW

  • Experience24 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Grief
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Laurel

Laurel Lass is an LCSW who centers work around Internal Family Systems alongside complementary trauma-informed and attachment-based methods. With 24 years of clinical experience, she focuses on easing stress and anxiety, supporting grief and mood concerns, and helping clients rebuild self-esteem and confidence.

Background and approach

Her approach invites clients to explore internal parts, understand relational patterns, and cultivate practical skills for managing panic, depressive symptoms, and pervasive shame. She frames clients as the experts of their own lives and partners with them to clarify values, strengthen motivation, and address issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, communication difficulties, control struggles, and loneliness.

Laurel integrates mindfulness and emotionally-focused techniques to help people notice internal experience, practice new ways of relating, and move toward greater self-love and life purpose. Throughout the process she offers steady, empowering guidance aimed at fostering resilience and sustainable change for those seeking relief from emotional pain and clearer interpersonal connection.

Integrating IFS and Attachment Work Online

Laurel often employs Internal Family Systems to help clients identify and relate to their inner parts - the protective, wounded, and exiled parts that shape thoughts and behaviors - which can be especially useful for addressing shame, panic, and persistent self-criticism. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore relational patterns and repair attachment wounds that underlie communication problems, control struggles, and feelings of abandonment. Emotionally-Focused Therapy complements these approaches by focusing on emotional experience and helping people create clearer, more supported ways of connecting with others.

Finding the right approach is an active, collaborative process. Laurel partners with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then tailors methods so therapy feels useful and practical. She invites clients to experiment with techniques and adjusts the plan as insight and progress emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care. These formats allow clients to access licensed professionals from home and continue work on skills like mindfulness, emotional processing, and parts work in ways that match their lifestyle and rhythm.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Laurel commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, low self-esteem, and depression, along with related issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, and panic symptoms.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines Internal Family Systems with attachment-based, trauma-focused, emotionally-focused, and mindfulness approaches to help clients explore inner parts, relational patterns, and present-moment experience.
What kind of clinical experience does she bring?
Laurel brings 24 years of professional experience helping people manage mood disorders, trauma symptoms, and interpersonal difficulties while building self-confidence and purpose.
What credentials and location are on record for this therapist?
She is licensed as an LCSW in California with license number CA LCSW 20677 and provides services from California.
Does she work with clients who speak other languages?
Laurel provides services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How is cost and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteemDepression

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressSelf-loveWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyEmotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

24+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English