About Lauren
Lauren Herman is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider with 13 years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She focuses on stress and anxiety while helping people build self-esteem, confidence, and everyday coping skills. Lauren presents a calm, respectful approach and emphasizes practical steps that families and individuals can use in daily life.
She treats each person as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what a person needs right now, whether that means learning breathing and grounding techniques or practicing ways to manage panic and worry. Lauren also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, depression, and concerns around addiction and eating problems. Communication problems, attachment issues, and codependency are also common topics she helps people talk through.
She supports clients with relationship stress, life changes, fertility-related strain, and feelings of isolation or low purpose. Body image, self-love, guilt, and shame are addressed with straightforward, compassionate conversation. Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s situation.
She encourages small, doable steps and checks in on progress regularly. The goal is to build practical skills people can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, handle triggers, and move toward clearer goals. Getting started is described as a courageous move.
Lauren aims to make the process approachable, working at a steady pace and matching treatment to what each person says they need.
Approaches and online options for anxiety and coping
Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical symptom relief and skill-building. One approach she often uses teaches concrete tools for managing worry and panic, such as breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations; these strategies can reduce the intensity of panic attacks and lessen avoidance. Another approach centers on building self-esteem and healthier self-talk by identifying negative patterns and practicing alternative responses, which helps with depression, social anxiety, and body image concerns.Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences guide which techniques are emphasized.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone calls can fit brief check-ins or times with lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging work well for short updates, coping reminders, or when typing feels easier. These options let people fit sessions around work, school, or family responsibilities while keeping consistent progress on anxiety, coping, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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