Laura Hastings
Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions
LMFT California
- Experience
- 24 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Self esteem, Career
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Languages
- English
About Laura
Laura Hastings is a licensed marriage and family therapist who blends practical skills with collaborative support to help clients pursue meaningful change. With 24 years of clinical experience in California, she focuses on relationship concerns, self-esteem and confidence, career challenges, coping with life transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, disaster-related coping, women’s issues, and workplace difficulties. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core method, she helps clients identify unhelpful patterns of thinking and build concrete strategies for managing emotions and behaviors.
She frames each person as the expert on their own life and aims to amplify existing strengths while teaching new tools to face challenges. Clients can expect a practical, empowerment-oriented approach that emphasizes skill-building and realistic steps toward goals.
Laura approaches therapy as a partnership, offering steady support as clients try new ways of relating, working, and coping. She encourages the courage it takes to pursue a more satisfying life and provides guidance tailored to each client’s situation and preferences.
CBT-informed Care Remotely and Practically
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is central to her remote practice and focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. This approach is often used for relationship stress, low self-esteem, career challenges, and the stress that follows major life changes.
In sessions she emphasizes skills training and problem-solving, helping clients translate insights into concrete steps they can try between meetings. Therapy is presented as a collaborative process where the client’s goals and preferences guide which techniques are tried and adjusted over time. The therapist works with each person to find the mix of strategies that feels most useful for their situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during transitions or when in-person meetings are not practical, and they support ongoing access to tools and reflection between sessions.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
24+ years
Licensed
California, Arizona, District of Columbia
Languages
English