About Lauren
Lauren Hawkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Texas. She has eight years of experience helping people with mental health and substance use concerns. Lauren takes a warm, interactive tone in sessions and focuses on respectful, compassionate care.
She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also supports people facing relationship strain, family problems, career challenges, self-esteem struggles, and mood or attention concerns such as bipolar disorder and ADHD.
Background and approach
Lauren has worked in many settings including community mental health agencies, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health hospitals, transitional living programs, and schools. That variety gives her experience with individual and group therapy and many types of presenting issues. Her approach combines client-centered listening with practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when those methods fit the goals of the person she is seeing. Sessions are shaped around an individual’s needs and goals. Lauren designs conversations and plans to be straightforward and doable.
She aims to help people take small steps that add up to real change. People who prefer a supportive, goal-focused counselor may find her style useful. Lauren emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and steady progress while respecting each person’s pace and experience.
How Lauren blends proven approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where a person is coming from. It puts the individual's experience first and helps build trust and clarity about what matters most in therapy.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. It uses practical exercises and simple strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can be especially useful for people who want tools for crisis management and steadier emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lauren works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts plans over time so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see cues and have deeper conversations. Phone can be a simpler option when screen use is difficult. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English