About Lauryn
Lauryn Blanding is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina. She draws on eight years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach is grounded in empathy and steady support so clients feel heard as they talk through hard moments.
Lauryn focuses on clear, practical steps alongside steady listening. She helps people who are dealing with grief, parenting strains, career stress, mood concerns like bipolar, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a person’s pace and address what feels most urgent in their life. Her work includes attention to attachment and family-of-origin patterns that shape how people relate. She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, first responder pressures, impulsivity, and the fallout from infidelity or separation.
Communication problems and commitment concerns are common topics she helps people navigate. Therapy sessions combine goal-oriented tools with reflective conversation. Lauryn uses methods that build coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and shift unhelpful thinking.
She helps clients practice new ways of responding to conflict and strong feelings. People who prefer collaborative, practical therapy often find her style approachable. She invites clients to set clear goals and to notice small changes between sessions.
Her clinical work aims to reduce overwhelm and help clients regain a clearer sense of direction. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that align with those values, even when feelings are hard to sit with. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by building committed steps toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change feelings and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging give options for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving schedules, or busy days while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English