Laura Salazar , LPC, LCPC

Laura Salazar is a licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience who works with people navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, addictions, and self-esteem issues. She holds LPC and LCPC credentials - LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor and LCPC stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - and maintains licensure in both Illinois and Texas. Her practice emphasizes collaborative goal setting, with treatment plans shaped around each person’s priorities and life context.

She favors evidence-based modalities and adapts techniques to match specific goals, drawing on client-centered (Rogerian) principles, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, existential perspective, and trauma-focused methods. She also incorporates constructivive and art-based techniques when they align with a client’s needs. Across these approaches she focuses on practical skills, insight, and building coping strategies that support behavior change and emotional regulation.

Laura frames therapy as a partnership in which the client is recognized as the expert on their own life while she brings clinical knowledge to outline pathways forward. Her work centers on empowering people to manage life transitions, process loss and trauma, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and strengthen relationships and self-worth through structured, goal-oriented care.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance in which the therapist listens deeply and helps the person explore values, choices, and personal goals. This approach is useful for building self-understanding, improving relationships, and navigating life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and skill-building, making it effective for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Trauma-focused therapy attends directly to the effects of traumatic experiences, helping people process memories, reduce distressing symptoms, and develop coping strategies tailored to recovery.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Laura Salazar works collaboratively with clients to choose and adjust methods that best match each person’s needs, goals, and preferences, blending techniques when appropriate to support meaningful progress.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions are delivered, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care during life changes, and select the format that feels most comfortable for discussion or skills practice with licensed professionals and therapists.