About Laura Vogel, LCSW
You can have a much better relationship with your anxiety.
I’m a Castle Rock-based therapist providing online sessions in Colorado and California. I specialize in helping high-functioning adults who feel anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck feel more at ease in themselves and in their relationships.
From the outside, your life may look like it’s working. But inside, you feel constant pressure: overthinking, pushing, analyzing, trying to get it right, and never quite being able to settle.
You’ve likely already tried to find ways to manage your stress better, practice self-care, change your mindset. These methods might just feel like another task on your to-do list, rather than restorative or healing. There’s nothing wrong with those methods. It just might not be enough because it’s not addressing WHY your anxiety is there in the first place.
It’s like putting a bandaid on a deep cut.
In our work together, we look underneath what’s happening on the surface, rather than trying to override the pressure and the behaviors you want to change. I can help you to not only understand how these behaviors formed (you might have done all that work on your own!), but what they’re trying to do for you, which allows for things to shift over time. This creates lasting change instead of more effort, just another thing to put on your to-do list.
You're wondering what it would be like to work together.
You don’t have to perform insight here. You don’t have to “do therapy right.” When overthinking, self-criticism, or urgency show up, we don’t fight them; we get curious about them. Sessions with me tend to feel less like problem-solving and more like learning how to relate to yourself in a new way. From there, shifts happen naturally and with far less force than you may be used to.
In our sessions, we don’t rush to solutions or push past the parts of you that feel stuck. We move at a pace that allows understanding, compassion and presence to come before change. That often means slowing down in places where you’re used to pushing through, fixing, or analyzing yourself.
Many of my clients are surprised by how much changes when they stop trying so hard to change. And I love to see that happen every time.
Why I See Anxiety Differently
For a long time, I believed therapy was about fixing yourself.
Figuring out all the childhood wounds and connecting all the dots, in order to understand. I thought change would come through managing the symptoms, alleviating them, figuring out how to be more in control of them, let them go, not care anymore.
But that approach never felt right to me. It created more pressure and more shame, and it didn’t lead to the kind of change I was looking for—either personally or professionally. It led to a lot of stuckness and frustration, and I wonder if that’s where you currently are.
When I was introduced to Internal Family Systems (IFS or ‘parts work’), and began experiencing it as a client myself, something shifted. I began to see that what I had always called “perfectionism” wasn’t simply my personality. It was a part of me, a part that had taken on the job of keeping me safe, successful, and worthy. It worked incredibly hard, and it made sense that it did. Instead of trying to silence that part or push past it, which I had tried for years, I started getting curious about it. What was it protecting? Why did it have to work so relentlessly? This is what I mean when I say going beyond surface level.
That shift changed how I understand anxiety.
What we often label as overthinking, self-criticism, or burnout are not character flaws. They are protective patterns that developed for a reason. They helped you function and achieve. But they can also leave you feeling tense, disconnected, or like you’re always striving for a version of yourself that never quite arrives.
Real change doesn’t come from fighting those patterns harder. The methods I use help you not only understand these patterns in a much gentler way, but also discover that there is something inside you that is steadier.
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My Training & Education
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado and California
BA in Psychology with a minor in applied psychology from University of California - Santa Barbara
MSW from University of Southern California
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Level 1 IFS Training from the IFS Institute
Retreats and Workshops with IFS (as I can’t get enough!) - find out more on my IFS page
IFS Consultation
Professional Skills 1 & 2 in EFT Tapping from the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP)
Currently in the process of accreditation in EFT Tapping through ACEP
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Member of Association of Energy Psychology
Continuing Education with the IFS Institute
Why do I keep mentioning the slow way home?
The Foundation of my Practice
The Slow Way Home came to me as I reflected on my own healing and the journeys of my clients. We live in a culture OBSESSED with urgency, productivity, and outcomes. Even therapy can start to feel like another thing to optimize.
This work is countercultural. Because this culture is not well. It asks you to slow down. To step off the hamster wheel of doing and achieving and managing. It may even (ahem… will) feel uncomfortable at first.
But the slow way home leads to something different: change that is sustainable. A way of living that isn’t driven by urgency or self-correction, but by steadiness and Self-trust.
If you’re curious about the slow way home, we may be a good fit. Let’s begin.
find the way back home to yourself.
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find the way back home to yourself. —