About Lauren
Lauren Rodriguez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and speaks both English and Spanish. Lauren aims to make the first step into therapy feel doable for people who are nervous or unsure.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what they are feeling.
Background and approach
Conversations center on what matters most to the person in front of her, and she listens for patterns that keep problems repeating. Lauren uses practical tools to help people cope with daily stress and stronger emotional responses. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that emphasize the client’s goals and pace.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding. Narrative work helps people reframe difficult stories about themselves and their relationships. Lauren has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and major life changes.
She also helps with concerns like body image, parenting strains, family-of-origin issues, and career stress. She respects cultural context and offers therapy in Spanish when helpful. Sessions are offered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Lauren notes that finding the right fit can take a few meetings, and she works collaboratively to set goals and decide on next steps.
How Lauren’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and pace. The therapist listens deeply and follows what the client brings to each session, which helps when someone needs a supportive place to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to test new ways of thinking and acting, useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the problems they face by retelling and reframing life events. This can be helpful when someone feels stuck in a painful story about relationships, identity, or past hurts.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. They will try approaches collaboratively and adjust based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from any location, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat can be a timely check-in, and messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using methods that suit individual needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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