About Lauren
Lauren Purcell is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on making therapy feel approachable for someone who is worried and unsure where to start. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through feelings and everyday problems.
Lauren listens first and follows the client's lead to identify what matters most.
Background and approach
She avoids jargon and looks for practical steps people can use between sessions. Her work draws on several therapeutic approaches. Lauren uses client-centered methods to build trust and meet each person where they are.
She also includes mindfulness practices to help people respond to stress more effectively. For people coping with past hurts, Lauren incorporates psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that keep recurring. She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, as one way to process traumatic memories when appropriate.
Lauren is based in California and conducts sessions in English. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and helps clients set clear, reasonable goals. Her aim is to help people feel more steady, more understood, and better able to handle daily demands.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Lauren blends client-centered therapy and EMDR alongside mindfulness practices to address anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a trusting relationship so clients can explore what matters to them and try small changes that fit their daily life. EMDR is a structured way to process distressing memories that can reduce the intensity of painful images and feelings when it is a good fit for someone's needs. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills and short exercises to notice stress reactions and respond with less reactivity.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and comfort with different methods and then try options together. That collaborative approach makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is made or needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection and work through emotional topics in depth. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, or extra reinforcement of strategies learned in sessions. These options make regular care more flexible and easier to keep up with.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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