About Lauren
Lauren Williams is a clinician based in Maryland who blends practical therapy with a warm, conversational style. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C, and brings five years of clinical experience to sessions. Lauren focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem.
She also supports people managing ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, and major life transitions. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods to listen and respond to what each person needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new coping steps. Mindfulness tools help people notice and steady strong emotions. Lauren also draws on solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals.
This often looks like breaking problems into clear next steps and tracking progress together. Sessions are practical and aimed at day-to-day improvements rather than abstract theory. She has additional experience with issues that come with aging, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and attachment-related concerns.
Communication problems, divorce and separation, fertility-related stress, and postpartum mood concerns are also within her focus. Lauren takes a collaborative stance, helping people choose strategies that match their life and priorities. Sessions can include brief skill practice, thought-restructuring exercises, and guided mindfulness.
The tone is straightforward and supportive, with attention to real-world changes people can use between meetings.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience first by focusing on listening, reflecting, and responding to each individual's needs. Online sessions use that same stance to help people feel heard and to shape sessions around their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; online CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, and homework that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm, practices that can be guided in a live video call or reinforced through brief text reminders.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. That might mean trying CBT worksheets for a few sessions, adding mindfulness practices, or focusing on solution-focused steps to handle a specific problem. The plan is adjusted as progress is seen and priorities shift.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or medical routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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