About Lauren
Lauren Ball is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, trauma, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and works alongside clients to set goals and track progress. Lauren believes asking for help is a brave first step and aims to make the next steps manageable and clear.
Her approach centers on the present. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit a person’s life.
How Lauren works
She uses strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build new skills for handling strong emotions. Past experiences are looked at only when they illuminate current patterns. Lauren emphasizes strengths and straightforward solutions.
She avoids clinical jargon and aims for conversations that are direct and useful. Therapy is framed as teamwork where both people check progress and adjust plans as needed. Over a 21-year career she has supported people through trauma and abuse, grief, mood disorders, workplace problems, and family tensions.
She also helps with adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, infidelity, and young adult concerns. Lauren practices in California and uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She offers a combination of practical skills training and problem-solving to help people move forward.
Lauren lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Lauren works with
The areas below are the ones Lauren selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Lauren commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on understanding how traumatic events affect current emotions and reactions, and it offers ways to reduce distress and build coping strategies.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and preferences and suggest methods that fit the person’s situation. Together they try an approach, review how it’s working, and adjust plans to better meet goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let someone check in between sessions or communicate when typing feels easier than talking. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
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