About Laurissa
Laurissa Bustillos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of practice based in New Mexico. She greets people with a calm, straightforward approach and sees therapy as a partnership.
Background and approach
Her style centers on listening closely and helping clients find practical ways forward. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse.
She also supports those facing addictions, relationship strain, parenting worries, and struggles with self-esteem. Laurissa pays attention to issues like communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and post-traumatic stress.
Sessions focus on what the person needs right now. Laurissa uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, and mindfulness practices to build tools clients can use between sessions.
She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas when people want clear goals and next steps. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist tend to do well with her.
Conversations are practical, paced to the individual's comfort, and aimed at small, steady changes. Laurissa emphasizes the client’s own insight while offering structure when needed.
She works in English and practices in New Mexico as an LMFT. Therapy can include talk-based problem solving, skill-building, and short-term plans for specific concerns.
The focus is on helping people feel more capable and better able to handle life’s challenges.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and validating the person’s experience. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to build confidence in their own decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laurissa works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people meet face-to-face when visual connection matters. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can be a simpler option. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility and make it easier to keep steady momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English