Lara Kelso

Lara Kelso is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of clinical experience, currently practicing in Missouri. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, family and parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Lara also supports clients coping with career questions, depression, compassion fatigue, and life changes.

She works from the view that people know their own story and already possess strengths to draw on. In sessions she listens closely and follows a client-centered style that keeps conversations practical and grounded. Expect clear talk about what feels stuck and small steps to try between meetings.

Lara blends approaches such as attachment-focused work and cognitive behavioral techniques to name patterns and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people reframe their stories and identify immediate, doable goals. These methods are chosen to match what each person brings and what they want to address.

Her background includes seven years as an LPC. That experience includes work with a wide range of relationship and family concerns, plus issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging, body image, and communication problems. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical, helping people make small changes that ease daily life.

To begin, Lara asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time, and session costs vary by location.

How attachment work and CBT translate to online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns, talk through relationship responses, and practice different ways of relating to others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions clients and the therapist identify unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try small behavioral experiments between meetings to see what changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lara will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with CBT or using narrative and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals.

Confirm the precise session formats available before booking, since the biography does not specify them. Many people find remote sessions help fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it easier to join from a quieter room or a break at work. The therapist will discuss practical arrangements during scheduling so sessions can fit ordinary life commitments.