Lara Peter, MD, LCPC

Lara Peter is a licensed clinician with an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) credential. She brings ten years of direct therapy experience and focuses on helping adults facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addictions, and related concerns. She emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach so people feel safe to speak openly about hard topics.

Lara keeps sessions practical and grounded. She listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and offers straightforward tools to try between meetings. Her goal is to help clients notice patterns that hold them back and practice different ways of responding to everyday stressors.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered and solution-focused ideas. That means she helps clients test thoughts, build new coping skills, and set small, achievable goals. Motivational Interviewing can also be part of sessions when people want help finding the motivation to change behavior.

Clients come for many issues including body image and eating concerns, relationship and communication problems, sleep trouble, anger, career strain, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, fertility worries, hoarding, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame.

Lara has worked in outpatient, in-home, residential, school, and university settings. She focuses on individual therapy for adults and adapts tools to each person's situation. The work is collaborative and paced to what the client can manage.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many everyday stressors by breaking concerns into clear steps to practice.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy. The therapist reflects what you share and helps create a trusting space where people can explore feelings and build insight at their own pace.

Motivational Interviewing is used when people are unsure about change. It involves asking open questions and helping clients find their own reasons for moving forward rather than giving advice.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lara will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort with different techniques. Plans can shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

Online care via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video helps keep face-to-face connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text let people fit therapy into busy days and send thoughts between sessions. These options make consistent progress easier to maintain despite hectic schedules.