Laura Acero
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, New York, Idaho
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura Acero is a licensed clinical social worker who centers care on the person in front of her. She works to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where parents and individuals can talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and the practical challenges of parenting. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 20 years of practice to conversations about everyday struggles.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on what helps in daily life.
Background and approach
She listens first, then suggests tools people can try between sessions. Those ideas come from therapies that teach skills for managing emotions and changing unhelpful thinking. Laura has supported people facing big life changes, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and relationship difficulties such as communication and commitment issues.
She also addresses problems with impulsivity, isolation, body image, and money worries. Many clients seek her help for mood concerns and navigating separation or divorce. In sessions she mixes evidence-based techniques with a warm, client-centered stance.
That means she follows each person’s pace and priorities while offering practices from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work. She helps people build clearer communication, set realistic goals, and reduce overwhelming feelings. Her Arizona licensure and two decades of experience inform practical plans you can try at home.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process steady and understandable.
How Laura’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following a person’s lead. The therapist creates space for parents and individuals to describe what matters most, then builds goals around those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical ways to change them, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, useful when impulsivity or intense stress are present.Finding which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try techniques together to see what helps. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to use in daily life because sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility helps parents and busy people fit therapy into real routines. It also allows practicing new skills between contacts and checking in quickly if challenges arise.
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
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, New York, Idaho
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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- Stop at any point