About Lauren
Lauren Dawood is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and LGBT-related issues. She works with people coping with trauma, eating and body image concerns, and career or relationship stress. Lauren draws on 11 years of clinical experience and aims to meet people where they are.
Her sessions are straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then shapes a plan with clear steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical skills and small changes that add up. Lauren uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue. She often relies on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. When emotions run high she draws from dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Client-centered principles guide the pace and direction of work so the person feels heard and in control.
She tailors each plan to the person’s goals, whether that means improving sleep, easing panic, addressing eating concerns, or managing mood swings. Lauren aims for clear steps and measurable progress, while staying flexible to changing needs.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel understood and guides therapy at a pace they control, which can be helpful for building trust over video or text.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change them. Online sessions can include worksheets, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step skill practice between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas bring specific tools for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Skills like emotion regulation and distress tolerance can be taught and practiced in short phone check-ins or text-based coaching between video sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. This is a team effort and adjustments are expected as work progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support brief coaching and ongoing skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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