About Lara
Lara Kelso is a Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She is licensed as an LPC and works with adults in Missouri. She wants to make the first steps into therapy feel doable and steady for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Lara focuses on common, heavy problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and family conflict.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for career stress, self-esteem struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her approach treats the person, not a label. She centers the client’s story and strengths when planning sessions.
Conversations in the room aim to be practical and focused on what is useful right now. Lara draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Narrative and solution-focused tools help people reframe their stories and set small, achievable goals. Sessions are paced to suit the person’s needs, with an emphasis on clear strategies and real-life problem solving. Lara encourages questions and makes room for people to test what does and does not work.
She supports gradual change and celebrates small steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach can help people notice repeating dynamics in relationships and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions CBT can teach practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful behavior.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to decide which methods to try. Together they will test tools and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: live video for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other obligations, while letting people choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English