About Lauren
Lauren Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with four years of clinical experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and struggles with motivation. Lauren aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things and begin to make changes.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns such as impulsivity, avoidance, or communication problems, and helps clients try different ways of responding that feel manageable. Lauren also works with concerns that often come alongside other struggles, including attachment and abandonment wounds, caregiver stress, codependency, and guilt or shame. She addresses how these issues show up in daily routines, relationships, and decision-making.
Conversations look at both feelings and behaviors so clients can notice what helps and what gets in the way. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Lauren asks questions, suggests exercises to practice between meetings, and checks in about what is working.
She encourages realistic steps rather than big, sudden overhauls. Her practice uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Lauren speaks English and provides care to people located in Louisiana.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression, which can help people manage daily mood and motivation. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment so clients can notice repeated dynamics and try different communication or boundary strategies to improve connection and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and together they will decide which techniques to try first. That collaborative process allows adjustments if something does not fit or if priorities change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit shorter check-ins or in-the-moment processing, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit care into busy schedules and maintain continuity between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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