About Lauren
Lauren Christensen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah. She offers practical, down-to-earth support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns. Her style is respectful and straightforward, with a steady focus on what a person needs right now.
She combines several approaches to fit each person's situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy adds skills for tolerating difficult feelings while focusing on values and action.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas are used when early relationships affect current reactions. Over a decade of work has given her experience with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood differences. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, chronic pain, cancer, adoption and foster care issues, and complicated family dynamics.
Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and pace. Lauren listens, then offers concrete tools - breathing and grounding practices, thought records, communication skills, or emotion-regulation strategies - depending on what will help most. The plan is adjusted as progress is made.
Her approach aims to make therapy useful and manageable. She encourages small steps that add up. For someone worried about daily functioning or specific phobias, she helps break problems into clear, workable steps.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing small actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and helping people move toward what matters despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and habits, then practices concrete changes in thinking and behavior that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills and can help when emotions feel overwhelming.Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different techniques together to find what fits. Sessions are collaborative - treatment plans are adjusted based on progress and preference so the care matches your needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not wanted. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when a shorter touchpoint during a busy day is needed. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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 and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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