About Lauren
Lauren Hawkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has provided care across community mental health, hospitals, transitional living programs, and schools. Lauren focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and life changes.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She meets people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
How Lauren works
Lauren adapts sessions to each person, tailoring the conversation and plan to suit individual needs. She uses practical tools drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those tools are used to address symptoms, build coping skills, and work toward clearer goals.
Conversations can include skill practice, problem-solving, and exploring patterns that keep problems repeating. Lauren has experience providing both individual and group formats in varied settings. That background informs how she structures sessions and how she supports people moving through transitions or recovery.
She has also worked with people impacted by physical trauma and by emotional or psychological abuse. Her approach treats therapy as a step-by-step process. Lauren encourages small, manageable changes and helps people set realistic goals.
She frames progress as a sequence of efforts rather than a single event, and she supports each person along the way.
Lauren lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a therapeutic relationship. It helps when someone needs validation, clearer self-understanding, and a steady place to talk through problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Those skills suit intense emotions, relationship stress, and managing strong reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and current needs and then pick or blend methods that fit. Sessions may shift over time as goals change or as a person learns new skills.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions work well when a camera is not convenient or when someone needs a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, in-the-moment coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care across locations.
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