About Lauren
Lauren Dawood is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and trauma. She supports those dealing with eating and body image concerns, ADHD, LGBT issues, relationship struggles, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Lauren is based in North Carolina and brings 11 years of experience to her work as an LPC and LCMHC.
She uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions. Conversations are tailored to each person.
How Lauren works
She listens first, then helps set small practical goals. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings. Lauren draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and change them.
She uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness practices and client-centered conversations help people feel heard and grounded. Her work also includes solution-focused ideas to build quick, achievable steps when life feels overwhelming.
For folks with trauma or complex histories, Lauren uses trauma-informed methods to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning. She adjusts pace and tools to match each person’s comfort and need. Lauren aims to make therapy a collaborative process.
She helps people set realistic goals, track progress, and notice small wins. If you are nervous about starting, she recognizes that first step takes courage and will guide you through scheduling and the early sessions.
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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.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and creating a supportive space. The therapist follows the person's lead while offering reflections that help clarify feelings and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to manage strong emotions and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and suggest methods that fit the situation. Together you can decide whether to focus on thought patterns, skill-building, mindfulness practices, or a mix of approaches based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow brief check-ins, mood tracking, or skill coaching between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy days and make it easier to maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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