About Lauren
Lauren Burns is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems. She writes in a warm, encouraging way and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She approaches sessions with a person-centred attitude.
That means listening first and letting the conversation follow what matters most to the client. Lauren uses practical skills alongside reflective conversation so people leave with tools they can try between appointments.
Background and approach
Her background includes around four years working in independent practice and volunteering as a counsellor in the NHS. That mix has given experience in common issues such as grief, trauma and addictions, and in everyday pressures like work stress and parenting strain. Lauren draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships shape present patterns.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and behaviour in the short term. Existential approaches help with questions about meaning and direction when life changes feel hard to navigate. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person.
Lauren aims to help people spot strengths, develop coping strategies and build more stable ways of relating to themselves and others. She welcomes people who want a down-to-earth, thoughtful approach to managing anxiety and other concerns.
Approaches online that focus on patterns and practical change
Lauren uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current ways of relating. This approach can help when intimacy, trust or repeated relationship problems are causing distress. She also uses client-centred methods which place the person's experience at the heart of the session, encouraging open conversation and self-directed insight. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, forms part of her toolkit to identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behaviour changes that reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Lauren treats the choice of method as collaborative and will discuss what feels most useful for your situation. Together you can try different ways of working and settle on what helps you meet your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit therapy around work and family life. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to access a therapist from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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