Lara Sayles

Lara Sayles is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 97213) working with individuals, couples, families, and minors (adolescents and teens). Lara specializes in anxiety, trauma, interpersonal relationships, emotional management, identity, grief and loss, adjustment/life transitions, sexuality, blended families, breakup and divorce recovery, self-esteem, focus, gender identity, creative blockages, codependency recovery, negative thoughts and behavior patterns, and working with the LGBTQIA community. Practicing therapy since 2009, Lara has a compassionate, straightforward, and strength-based approach, tailoring treatment uniquely to each individual/couple/family. She integrates practices from the orientations of Family Systems, Existential, Narrative, Internal Family Systems, Solution-Focused, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Lara is fully trained as an EMDR Therapist for the treatment of trauma, obtaining her certificate through the EMDRIA-Approved Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Lara completed level 1 training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and is currently progressing through level 2. Lara loves being a therapist because it’s challenging and always provokes opportunities for growth. Her passion for traveling the world grants her a broader understanding of cultural factors and the extensiveness of their impact on an individual. Lara enjoys helping people heal, gain insight, find meaning, and evolve into better versions of themselves while cultivating a genuine therapeutic relationship with them.