About Lara
Dr. Lara Neely is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She uses a practical, down-to-earth style to help clients find tools that make daily life easier.
Lara aims to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard for them. She draws on somatic approaches to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and to learn ways to ease physical tension.
Background and approach
She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered methods to help clients clarify values and build coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when helpful to change unhelpful thoughts and improve emotion regulation. Before focusing on independent practice, she worked in psychiatric emergency settings and community behavioral health, gaining experience with a wide range of concerns.
Her background includes work with people dealing with trauma, mood disorders, sleep problems, and relationship strain. Lara has four years of counseling experience and holds LPC credentials for Texas and Colorado. In sessions she emphasizes practical strategies and a personalized toolkit of skills.
She believes clients are the experts on their lives and that therapy is a collaborative process. Many people find this approach useful when coping with grief, parenting stress, chronic illness, or major life transitions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to help clients build routines and strategies that fit their daily life.
Lara supports people as they learn new ways to manage emotions and pursue a life that feels more meaningful to them.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic work focuses on how stress shows up in the body, helping people notice tension and learn simple body-based strategies to calm down. This can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and physical effects of stress while still working over video or phone.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when feelings are difficult. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and support, letting clients guide the pace of change while the therapist offers empathy and understanding.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adapt techniques over time. Many people try a mix of strategies to see what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work during life transitions. Licensed professionals can guide practical skill-building, value-based work, and body awareness exercises in these formats so people can practice tools where they live and work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English