About Lauren
Lauren Dusbabek is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help clients feel steadier and more capable. Lauren aims to make the first steps feel less overwhelming for anyone reaching out for support.
She draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to build a respectful, listening-first space. Sessions often begin with understanding relationship patterns and what feels unsafe or upsetting.
Background and approach
From there she helps people notice how those patterns affect daily life and steady their reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work when clients want concrete tools. That can mean identifying thought patterns that increase worry and practicing small behavior changes that reduce stress.
For trauma-related concerns she also uses EMDR techniques alongside talk work to address painful memories when appropriate. Lauren has fifteen years of clinical experience in Nevada, supporting people facing depression, grief, addiction concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with attachment issues, communication problems, abandonment concerns, and recovery from domestic violence.
Her sessions are practical and paced to each person. She listens first, then offers tools and experiments to try between sessions. Many people come for short-term work to solve a problem and some stay longer for deeper change.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. In online sessions this approach looks at patterns in how people connect, feel safe, or pull away, and then practices new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client sets the pace. The therapist listens carefully and reflects back what she hears so people can make clearer choices about next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides hands-on tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; online, CBT homework and short experiments fit well between appointments.
Lauren will work with clients to find the best approach for their needs. She treats finding the right fit as a shared process - discussing goals, trying methods, and adjusting based on what helps most. That way therapy stays practical and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work visually on relationship patterns and practice new skills. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
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