About Lauren
Lauren Hales is a licensed mental health clinician with 25 years of experience. She works from a practical, skills-based perspective to help people manage stress and anxiety. She listens first, then helps people add tools to their everyday life so they can handle hard moments more easily.
Her background includes work in hospitals and independent practice across Arizona. That experience shaped a straightforward style focused on clear skills and real-life strategies.
Background and approach
She draws on methods that target thinking patterns, relationships, and emotional responses. Lauren uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused ideas, emotionally-focused methods, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. She often blends these to match what a person needs in the moment.
Sessions can include talking, practicing new skills, and planning small steps to try between meetings. Common concerns she helps people with include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, stress, sleep problems, eating concerns, and addiction. She also addresses relationship and communication issues, self-esteem, mood disorders, impulse control, and self-harm thoughts when they are present.
Lauren holds LMHC and LPC credentials and works with English-speaking clients. She accepts international clients and offers several remote session formats. The focus is on teaching usable skills, exploring patterns that cause pain, and helping people gain more control over daily reactions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions use conversation and focused exercises to spot patterns and try new ways of relating to others and to yourself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. In remote sessions this often means setting small homework tasks and reviewing results together. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on the feelings under relationship problems and guides people to express needs more clearly; it can be used in video sessions to practice new interaction patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together the client and therapist choose or blend methods, and then adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online treatment offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, brief coaching between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules while still focusing on practical skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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