Lara Fallon
Calm, practical guidance for family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lara
Lara Fallon is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, person-centered methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She brings 25 years of experience in Missouri to each conversation and focuses on clear goals and usable tools. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at small, steady changes that fit into daily life.
Her style combines client-centered listening with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
That mix helps when emotions feel overwhelming and when patterns need changing. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are also used to build coping skills and short-term progress. Lara has worked with people facing relationship strain, communication problems, addictions, and major life transitions.
She also brings experience with caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, aging concerns, blended family issues, and the impacts of trauma and abuse. These areas often overlap, and she helps clients sort priorities and next steps. In sessions she emphasizes practical strategies such as thought-challenging, emotion regulation skills, and planning concrete actions.
She encourages regular practice between visits so tools become habits. The goal is steady improvement rather than quick fixes. Lara approaches each person with respect and without judgment.
She helps people identify strengths, set realistic goals, and try small experiments that lead to better coping. Her work is geared toward parents and others looking for clear guidance and realistic strategies for day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment, helping clients feel heard and understood while identifying goals and strengths to build on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills like thought-challenging and behavior experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds concrete tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help when emotions feel intense or cycles repeat.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit those priorities. Sessions can shift over time as progress is made and new challenges appear, keeping the plan collaborative and flexible.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit help into a busy family schedule. These options allow people to use short check-ins, longer weekly sessions, or a mix that matches their routine. The emphasis is on accessibility and practical ways to practice skills between conversations.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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