About Lauren
Lauren Midkiff is a licensed social worker in Michigan who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She focuses on building motivation, self-esteem, and confidence so clients can move forward. Her approach is practical and straightforward, with an emphasis on each person’s strengths and choices.
She starts by listening to the whole story and identifying small, usable steps. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and she offers tools to reach them.
Background and approach
Lauren emphasizes skills that can be practiced between meetings to make changes feel real. Her background includes three years of clinical experience working with people navigating relationships, career shifts, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with grief around fertility, blended family strains, and body image worries.
These topics come up alongside common struggles like depression, codependency, and commitment questions. Lauren pays attention to attachment patterns and how they shape communication and trust. She is open to conversations about kink, BDSM, and alternative sexual cultures when that is relevant to someone’s well-being.
Her work also addresses impulsivity, guilt, and forgiveness in practical ways. Every plan is tailored to the person in front of her. Sessions aim to increase coping skills and day-to-day confidence.
Lauren encourages small experiments in behavior and thought to test what works and build momentum.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skill building for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging exercises to reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach looks at attachment patterns and relationship dynamics to improve communication, trust, and intimacy in close relationships.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will help identify which techniques fit a person’s goals, preferences, and current situation. Together they test methods, adjust plans, and choose tools that feel useful in real life rather than rigid rules.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video can mirror an in-person session for deeper conversation. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing check-ins, brief reflections, and quick skill practice between longer sessions, making it easier to apply new habits across daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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