About Lauren
Lauren Ball is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and parenting challenges. She takes a straightforward, nonjudgmental approach and works with clients to set practical goals. Lauren emphasizes teamwork and steady progress so people know what to expect from sessions.
Her sessions focus on the present and on usable skills. She offers concrete strategies for managing difficult feelings, reducing worry, and improving communication.
Background and approach
The work is practical and brief when possible, with attention to what fits each person's life. Lauren incorporates tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also uses solution-focused and trauma-focused methods when they match a client's needs.
Trauma work is approached carefully, with attention to safety and pacing. She has spent two decades supporting people through life changes, substance concerns, family conflict, and recovery after traumatic events. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, infidelity, and workplace difficulties.
Sessions are available in English and are offered to people located in California. Lauren is a California LCSW and draws on practical problem-solving and emotion-regulation skills in her work. She aims to help people learn tools they can use between sessions and to track progress over time.
How CBT and DBT translate to online sessions
Lauren often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT usually involves setting specific goals, trying new behaviors, and practicing skills between sessions to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills. DBT tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming and when stronger skills are needed for managing intense reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lauren will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include mixing CBT, DBT, solution-focused steps, or trauma-focused pacing depending on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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