About Lauren
Lauren Oates is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, parenting strains, and life transitions. She keeps language simple and practical to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's priorities and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practical behavior changes.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness tools are part of her toolbox as well, and she adapts methods to each person's goals. Sessions may include talk-based work and practical exercises. She helps people strengthen communication, work through feelings after loss, manage anger, and improve sleep and eating habits.
Therapy often focuses on small, concrete steps that add up to real change. Lauren spent several years working at a nonprofit community mental health organization. That experience shaped her practical style and her focus on accessible care for everyday struggles.
She draws on that background when helping people balance work, family, and mental health. Therapy with her is collaborative. Clients set goals and she helps them test what works.
People who prefer varied methods can use talk work, mindfulness practice, or action-focused techniques based on what fits their life. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the client's priorities. In practice this means sessions emphasize what matters most to the person and adapt pace and goals to fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that reinforce anxiety or low mood and testing small behavior changes to shift how someone feels. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and work with strong emotions, which can improve communication and closeness when feelings get overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, personality, and concerns. That collaboration means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what is most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets the therapist and client work in real time with visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to try techniques in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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