About Lauren
Lauren Fields is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship strain, and issues with negative thinking. She works with concerns like mood disorders, panic attacks, addictions, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps that can fit into everyday life.
She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts, try new behaviors, and build routines that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Lauren also draws on client-centered and solution-focused ideas to keep sessions grounded in a person’s goals. Sessions are conversational and action-oriented rather than long lectures. Lauren’s background includes study of interpersonal communication, which informs how she addresses relationship patterns and communication problems.
That experience helps when the work involves divorce, separation, forgiveness, or repairing trust. She pays attention to how stress affects daily roles like caregiving and career responsibilities. In session she helps people identify small experiments to test changes and practices to reduce reactivity, such as grounding or thought records.
She also supports work around self-love, guilt and shame, isolation, and life purpose. The approach balances symptom management with exploring values and motivation. Her practice emphasizes clear steps, regular check-ins, and building skills that can be used between sessions.
Lauren aims to make therapy understandable and useful for people juggling busy lives and real-world pressures.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Lauren commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and choose actions that align with what matters most. Both approaches aim to create concrete, usable skills rather than only talking about feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That means trying strategies, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan so it matches preferences and needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options help people keep continuity of care while managing busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English