About Lauren
Lauren Dawood is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and works with concerns like depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, and LGBT matters. Lauren aims to create a respectful, compassionate space for people to begin tough conversations.
Her style centers on listening and adapting to each person. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
Lauren also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach coping and emotional regulation. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings. She helps clients set short-term goals and build skills for handling triggers, difficult moods, and relationship strain.
Mindfulness practices are introduced when they fit a client's needs and preferences. Lauren has experience with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, compassion fatigue, career stress, and attachment-related difficulties. She adjusts pace and approach to match each person’s situation rather than applying a fixed protocol.
People can expect a collaborative process where goals and plans are revisited as progress happens. Lauren encourages gentle self-compassion while working toward clearer routines, healthier coping, and improved communication.
How her approaches work online
Lauren blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change patterns that cause distress. Client-centered therapy means conversations are guided by the person's priorities and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and testing thoughts that contribute to anxiety and low mood, and on building new, more helpful behaviors.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach practical coping for intense emotions and relationship strain. DBT skills target emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be useful for mood disorders and overwhelming stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that match goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone calls can be a simpler option when a shorter check-in is needed or video is not practical. Chat and messaging are helpful for ongoing support between sessions and for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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