About Lauren
Lauren MacPherson is a licensed social worker who offers practical, down-to-earth support for anxiety and related concerns. She holds an LSCSW and draws on 16 years of experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsettled by life changes. Lauren focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting strain.
She also helps people dealing with trauma, grief, loneliness, and issues like shame or low self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, with an emphasis on listening first and building workable steps next.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes. She also brings client-centered skills to make space for each person’s priorities and values. For clients processing traumatic events she may incorporate EMDR techniques as part of a paced plan.
Her approach aims to create short-term wins and longer-term coping skills. That might mean learning breathing and grounding practices, trying new ways to respond to stress, or setting simple goals to rebuild confidence. Lauren talks through options and helps people decide which strategies fit their life.
Lauren practices in Kansas and conducts sessions in English. She works with issues across career, identity, and mood, including support for LGBT concerns and young adult challenges. Practical tools, steady support, and clear next steps are central to how she works.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experience and offers a listening, non-directive stance that helps people name what matters most. This approach works well for anyone wanting to clarify values and decide what to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and simple grounding skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices pair well with CBT and DBT skills when someone needs steadier regulation during stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and preferences and then choose which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted over time based on how the person responds and what fits their life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing feedback, and quick skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while accommodating different schedules and comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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