About Lauren
Lauren Oates is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and grief. She works with adults on parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, and identity questions such as gender dysphoria and LGBT matters.
Her style centers on the person rather than labels. Sessions focus on the client's goals and strengths, with the therapist listening first and offering practical strategies that match what the client wants.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to address sleeping and eating disturbances, anger, low self-esteem, and mood concerns including depression and ADHD-related challenges. Lauren combines talk-based work with mindfulness and problem-solving techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) skills are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test different behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) principles guide sessions about connection, closeness, and communication struggles. She also integrates creative approaches for people who prefer nonverbal ways to sort through feelings. Making something can help reveal emotions that are hard to name and can be calming or clarifying in the moment.
Lauren has experience in community mental health settings and aims to reduce barriers to care. Therapy is collaborative: she helps clients try strategies, notice what works, and adjust plans over time. The goal is steady improvement in daily life, not just removing symptoms.
Using Client-Focused and Cognitive Tools Online
Client-Centered Therapy is focused on listening and tailoring sessions to each person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps clarify what change would look like. This approach is helpful for people who want a supportive space to talk through life changes and relationship issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions teach simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) can also be used for conversations about closeness and communication to improve connection and reduce conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a deeper, face-to-face feel, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are good for quick check-ins, short problem-solving, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of connecting until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist 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
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