About Lauren
Lauren Gallagher is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who uses a person-centered approach. She combines practical strategies with a warm, supportive style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She brings ten years of experience in mental health settings.
That includes work in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient programs, partial hospitalization, school-based services, and in-home care. Those settings shaped her ability to adapt techniques to real-life situations.
Background and approach
Lauren uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take steps toward what matters. Solution-Focused Therapy supports shorter-term goals and concrete progress between sessions.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns such as grief, parenting stress, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, anger, family conflict, body image, adoption and foster care issues, and problems with impulse control. She also works with trauma, domestic violence impacts, and adjustment after separation or divorce. Sessions aim to be collaborative.
Clients set the goals and Lauren helps design practical steps to reach them. The focus is on clear tools, steady support, and building skills that fit day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on choosing actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress management. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on reducing the ongoing impact of past traumatic events and building coping skills to manage triggers and distress.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, your daily life, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides whether sessions focus on skills practice, values-based action, or processing difficult memories, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps when you want to send notes or updates between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can use therapy in ways that match their routines and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English