Lara Kelso, LPC

Lara Kelso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with seven years of clinical experience. She is licensed in Missouri, Arizona, and Oregon and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and major life changes.

She works in straightforward, respectful ways and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clearer thinking to reduce overwhelming feelings. Lara encourages small, manageable changes that fit into everyday routines.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships shape current patterns. She also uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and narrative therapy to help people retell difficult parts of their story. Solution-focused techniques are used to set short-term goals and track progress.

People come to Lara for help with parenting stress, blended family concerns, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, body image and self-esteem struggles, and challenges at work.

Lara aims to make starting therapy simple. She asks a few questions to match people with a plan and then schedules sessions around their needs. Her style is down-to-earth, hopeful, and goal-oriented.

How Lara’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current close relationships shape how people react and feel today; it can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family patterns. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping the client lead the conversation; it supports self-esteem, decision making, and emotional processing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different behavior patterns; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what is helping and what feels comfortable.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to continue work during relocation or when local options are limited. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, thought records, and narrative work to an online setting so progress remains practical and goal focused.