About Lauren
Lauren Bunting is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who aims to make therapy feel simple and approachable. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and collaborative so people can feel safe talking about hard things.
She brings ten years of experience, including school counseling and clinical work. That background gave her practice with common problems like panic attacks, mood disorders, and communication breakdowns.
Background and approach
She also supports people working through blended family issues and attachment concerns. Lauren leans on practical, evidence-informed methods. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior approaches.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, doable steps that can make daily life easier. In sessions she helps clients name unhelpful thought patterns, practice new ways to cope with strong emotions, and try out different ways of talking with others. She works together with each person to set clear goals that match their values and everyday needs.
Her approach emphasizes building skills and improving communication. That can mean practicing grounding skills for panic, learning strategies for mood management, or finding ways to reduce recurring family conflict. Lauren aims for steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Lauren commonly blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral methods to help people manage worry and change unhelpful thinking. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's story so goals come from what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches specific skills for spotting and shifting thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills when feelings feel overwhelming. The therapist will work together with each person to choose which approaches fit their goals and day-to-day life. That collaborative process helps adapt techniques to what actually works for the individual.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and work through skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is useful. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick updates, between-session coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to try therapy without major schedule changes and help people practice new skills in everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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