About Lauren
Lauren Heard is a counsellor in the United Kingdom who uses a compassionate, person-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on her seven years of practical experience to offer calm, down-to-earth support. Conversations are tailored to each person, so sessions focus on immediate concerns and clear next steps.
She works with a broad range of issues including relationship and family difficulties, low self-esteem, depression, addiction, grief and trauma.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, eating and body image issues, parenting strains and career stresses. ADHD, compassion fatigue and a variety of attachment challenges are part of her practice too. Lauren combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
She also draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to look at early patterns that shape current relationships. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding direction or making behaviour changes. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical.
Lauren helps clients set small, achievable goals and checks progress together. The work is collaborative - she offers options and listens to what works for each person. She is registered with BACP and NCPS.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session through the Start Therapy button.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Lauren uses client-centred work to put the person’s experience at the centre of each session, offering attentive listening and responses that follow the client's priorities. This approach helps when people need space to make sense of feelings and to choose the next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT is often useful for stress, anxiety, eating concerns and unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as progress is made. This collaborative way helps keep the focus on what the client needs in each moment.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy days or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is wanted. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, journalling between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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