About Lauren
Lauren Dawood is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and LGBT-related challenges. She uses clear, direct talk to help clients make changes and feel steadier. Lauren brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to meet people where they are.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then works with each person to set realistic goals. Sessions often include skills you can use between meetings to reduce overwhelm and stay grounded.
Background and approach
Lauren draws on cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and better coping during crisis moments. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are added when they fit a person’s needs.
She has supported people through trauma, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, and relationship struggles. She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, and the fallout of major life changes. Lauren tailors conversations and plans to each person rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions.
Sessions are offered from North Carolina and conducted in English. Lauren emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and collaboration. She recognizes the courage it can take to begin therapy and works to make the process straightforward and doable.
How Lauren blends therapy approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a respectful working relationship; it helps when someone needs space to be heard and to explore what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood swings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills and is useful when intense emotions or recurring crises get in the way of daily life.Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will learn about a person’s goals, preferences, and current challenges, then try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what feels doable.
Online therapy offers several practical formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, use lower bandwidth when needed, or check in without committing to a longer session, while still working with licensed professionals to learn skills and make changes.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English