Dr. Lara Neely, LPC

Dr. Lara Neely is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with four years of clinical experience and licensure in Texas. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also lists areas such as career strain, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related issues.

She uses practical, skills-based work in sessions. That often means learning specific ways to manage intense feelings, reduce panic, and improve sleep. She draws from tools in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered methods, and hypnotherapy depending on the client’s needs.

Dr. Neely’s background includes time in psychiatric emergency care and community behavioral health clinics as well as private practice. She has worked with a wide range of people across many life stages and life situations. She notes experience with first responders, cancer patients, caregivers, and people facing serious illness or chronic pain.

In sessions she focuses on building a practical toolbox of coping strategies. That can include breathing and grounding skills, ways to rethink automatic thoughts, and behavioral plans to change unhelpful patterns. The emphasis is on usable techniques clients can apply between sessions to handle frustration and reduce reactive responses.

Her approach treats clients as the experts on their lives and aims for collaborative problem solving. People who want clear techniques for managing anger, sleep, mood swings, or relationship tension may find this practical style helpful.

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