About Lauren
Lauren Lynch is an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) based in Australia who focuses on anxiety, eating and self-worth concerns. She offers a calm, straightforward style to help people untangle overthinking, shame and patterns like people-pleasing or perfectionism. Lauren works with adults and young adults who feel stuck and want practical changes.
Her sessions are warm and collaborative. She helps people notice the habits that once kept them safe but now limit their life and relationships.
Background and approach
Work may include learning skills for handling strong emotions, improving how you communicate, reducing avoidance, and practising self-compassion. Lauren draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills alongside trauma-informed practice. This means therapy blends values-based goal setting, testing unhelpful thoughts and building coping strategies you can use day to day.
For people with eating or body image concerns she combines specialist eating disorder approaches with attention to identity, control and shame. As an Aboriginal and queer clinician, she aims to provide culturally safe, inclusive and affirming care. She welcomes clients from diverse cultural and identity backgrounds and attends to how culture and identity shape recovery and self-understanding.
Therapy with Lauren emphasises small, manageable steps toward a life that feels more connected and meaningful. Sessions focus on what you want to change and on practical tools to get there.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance and people who feel stuck by overthinking. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify and test unhelpful thoughts and build practical habits to change mood and behaviour. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance and better interpersonal communication for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences and together decide which mix of ACT, CBT or DBT skills fits best. That collaborative process can change as you progress, so plans are reviewed and adapted to what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to attend from different locations, fit sessions around work or caring duties, and choose the format that feels most manageable for each step of therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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