Language: English, Spanish.
Laura Escobar is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Brain Spotting Practitioner. A native Angelino, Laura received her Bachelor’s in Social Work from CSU Los Angeles and her master’s in Social Work from CSU Long Beach. She works in English and Spanish and has experience working in an inpatient psychiatric setting as well as community mental health.
She believes that healing emerges through intentional everyday practices that transform into rituals of self-care. Using an intersectional, anti-oppression, and strength-based framework, Laura approaches therapy as a collaborative process to navigate the complexities of individual lived experience and interpersonal relationships. As a therapist, she supports and identifies the strengths and internal resources clients are inherently born with and promotes the connection to self and community. Laura strives to create a warm and empathetic environment to promote self-expression and connect unconscious behaviors and the impact those behaviors have on the present. As a certified Brainspotting professional, Laura uses this technique to access the autonomic and limbic system located in the deep brain. This process provides an opportunity to locate, focus, process, and release repressed experiences and symptoms in the unconscious mind.
Laura’s specialties include stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, and depression. She is attuned to the pressures and stressors experienced by BIPOC individuals, first- and second-generation immigrants, and trauma survivors. She uses strengths-based, solution-focused, and motivational interviewing techniques that promote learning, insight, and action. Laura has worked with children, former foster youth, system-impacted communities, and adults experiencing grief and loss.
Laura’s theoretical orientation is a combination of systems theories and restorative justice. Her practice and style are rooted in a person-centered approach that validates how individuals are impacted by their environments. Laura often uses mindfulness practice, cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused modalities. Her goal is to support the development of your insight to create an opportunity to improve your overall wellness. She has experience developing a stress management group for nursing students at LAC+USC College of Nursing and Allied Health with a focus on breath work and mindfulness practice. Laura believes therapy first starts with learning the language of our feelings and in collectively working to grow your communication skills, insight, confidence, self-care and overall wellness.
