About Lauren
Lauren Bourne trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with adults in the United Kingdom and with international clients online. Lauren focuses on helping people who feel anxious, overwhelmed, low in mood, or stuck in difficult relationship patterns.
Lauren offers a calm, steady presence in sessions. She keeps the pace gentle and responsive, helping people feel heard without pressure.
How Lauren works
Sessions are about noticing what matters, making small shifts, and building clearer ways of relating to others and to yourself. People come to Lauren with worries about anxiety, stress, or ongoing family and relationship problems. She also supports those coping with trauma or a history of emotional neglect, and people struggling with low self-esteem or a strong fear of abandonment.
Practical goals often include clearer boundaries, more emotional regulation, and fewer repeating patterns that cause pain. Her approach draws on attachment ideas and person-centred practice to help people understand early patterns and how they show up now. Lauren listens for what you need and works with you to build new ways of connecting and feeling safe in relationships.
She aims to help clients find steadier moods and greater confidence. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lauren describes her role as holding a space to slow down, get curious, and move forward at a manageable pace.
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
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How attachment-informed therapy works online
Lauren commonly draws on person-centred work and attachment-based ideas. Person-centred counselling focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s pace to help them gain clarity and self-understanding. It suits people who want a compassionate space to talk without being told what to do. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current responses to closeness, trust and separation; this can help with anxiety, relationship problems and fears of abandonment.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped or not helped before, and your preferences for how you like to work. Together you will try ways of working that feel helpful and adjust the focus as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and body language cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or if typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and travel.
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