About Lauren
Lauren Oates uses a person-centered approach that keeps the client's goals first. She holds the LPCC credential and draws on five years of clinical experience in community mental health. Lauren emphasizes practical connections between therapy and daily life so change feels useful and tangible.
She aims to work with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Lauren also supports people navigating grief, parenting stress, career shifts, and identity issues including LGBT and gender dysphoria.
Background and approach
She helps with sleep or eating struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and managing attention differences such as ADHD. Lauren blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused work. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing shape short-term goals and moments of reflection.
Sessions focus on clarifying what matters to the person and trying tools that fit their life and routines. Her experience includes work at a nonprofit community mental health organization in Kentucky. That setting shaped her practical approach to problems and her focus on strengths rather than labels.
She aims to make sessions approachable for people who are unsure about starting therapy. Lauren offers several formats for remote care, and sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She provides services in English and does not work with international clients.
To begin, clients complete a brief questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's priorities. In online sessions the therapist follows the client's lead, asking about goals and adapting activities to fit each person's life. This approach helps when someone wants practical, individualized support.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT often includes short behavioral experiments, thought records, and homework that can be reviewed during video or message-based sessions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and managing stress.
Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name emotions and the patterns that keep them stuck. In remote work this can mean guided reflection, role plays, and exercises that build emotional awareness and connection to valued goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick strategies that match goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as the client notices what helps and what does not.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a calmer, voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging are good for brief check-ins, homework review, or when someone wants to communicate without scheduling a full call.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English