About Lauren
Lauren Rich is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, sleep problems, or life changes. She also supports people facing work pressure, compassion fatigue, and challenges with focus or self-esteem.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on what is causing day-to-day difficulty and what can be changed now. She blends listening with clear steps to try between meetings so progress feels tangible.
Background and approach
Lauren draws from several approaches to shape each session. She uses client-centered techniques to follow the person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when trauma memories get in the way of daily life, and motivational interviewing to strengthen motivation for change. These methods are offered as tools, not guarantees, and are chosen to fit each person’s goals.
Her background includes work with military and first responder communities, sports performance, and high-stress careers. This experience informs a practical style that aims to make skills work in real life. Lauren provides care from Oklahoma and conducts sessions in English.
International clients are accepted.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on your goals and priorities and gives you space to set the agenda. Sessions are guided by what matters most to you and the therapist mirrors back what helps you notice next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions identify patterns that keep problems going and build practical experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. Online DBT sessions often practice short skills between meetings and review what worked in real life.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process may blend approaches over time so techniques match what’s most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text works well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These options make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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