About Lauren
Lauren Hawkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She earned a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Sam Houston State University. Lauren focuses on common struggles like anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and issues related to addiction and life changes.
Her tone is warm and encouraging and she aims to help people take practical steps forward. Lauren offers straightforward, interactive care that centers the client.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the person rather than a single method. She listens for strengths and barriers, then works with each person to set realistic goals and small steps they can try between sessions. Her work includes both individual and group settings across community mental health, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health hospitals, transitional living programs, and schools.
That range gives her familiarity with practical challenges people face in daily life and treatment transitions. In session she draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive-behavioral tools and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. Lauren blends these approaches to address symptoms, teach coping skills, and improve everyday functioning.
She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to support changes related to substance use and other behaviors. People who come to Lauren often want clear strategies for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, or navigating big life transitions. She encourages gradual progress and focuses on what works for each person.
If someone is ready to begin, she helps them outline the next steps and supports them through the process.
How her approaches work online
Lauren often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes. CBT teaches steps and exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to help manage intense emotions and improve coping. DBT-based tools include emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful for relationships and strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lauren works collaboratively to decide which methods match a person's goals and day-to-day needs. She adjusts strategies over time and checks in to see what is helpful so care stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging give a shorter, written way to share updates, ask questions, or practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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