Key details
- CredentialsLCSW
- LicenseLCSW, Missouri / 2010029087
- NPI1720886260
- Experience25 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationMissouri
About
- CBT techniques
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Lara
Lara Fallon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who struggle with stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions. Lara also supports those facing relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, career transitions, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Her background includes long-term work with people coping with chronic illness, chronic pain, caregiver stress, and later-life concerns. She has supported clients through divorce and separation, blended family adjustments, and the emotional effects of major life changes. Her practice also addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt, and forgiveness struggles.
Lara uses practical approaches rather than jargon. She draws on client-centered work to understand a person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques are used to build emotion regulation and stress management skills.
Sessions focus on clear strategies you can try between meetings. Solution-focused techniques help set short-term steps and measurable goals. She emphasizes straightforward skills for managing anger, calming anxiety, handling workplace stress, and improving everyday interactions.
People meet with Lara to make manageable changes over time. She helps sort priorities, rehearse new behaviors, and track what works. Before booking, confirm which session formats are offered and how they fit your routine.
How sessions work
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening to each person's concerns and building goals together; it helps when someone wants to be heard and to set priorities for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can reduce reactivity and improve handling of anger and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lara will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared planning can include trying different techniques and tracking what helps most over several sessions.
Confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce the time spent traveling to appointments. Many people find remote sessions help maintain consistency during workdays or caregiving schedules; discuss timing and practical needs when you schedule the first appointment.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, anger, self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and related concerns.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is practical and client-centered, using clear techniques from CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and solution-focused work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Lara has 25 years of experience as a mental health clinician.
Is she licensed and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MO LCSW, practicing in Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she accept international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.