About Lauren
Lauren Christensen is a licensed counselor who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She is an LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor) in Utah and brings ten years of experience to sessions. Lauren aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She works with many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related struggles, parenting strain, and career stress.
Background and approach
Lauren pays attention to the everyday challenges that get in the way of functioning and satisfaction. In sessions she uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas and client-centered conversation to understand patterns and strengthen coping.
The work is collaborative and shaped around each person’s goals. Lauren focuses on building practical skills for emotion regulation, problem solving, and communication. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors between sessions.
Progress is measured in small, real changes like better sleep, fewer intense arguments, or clearer daily routines. She aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. Lauren customizes conversation and plans to fit a person’s life, values, and pace.
Her approach is steady and goal-oriented, with room for compassion along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters to a person and taking committed steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation by shifting attention from fighting feelings to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress; it is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and day-to-day problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current connection and emotion management, which can help with intimacy-related struggles and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods together and adjust over time. This collaborative process helps tailor the plan so sessions focus on what will help most in daily life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use body language and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, while chat and messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing tracking between meetings. These formats make it easier to attend sessions consistently and to apply new skills in real situations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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 and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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