About Lauren
Lauren Heard offers a warm, person-centred approach that starts with listening. She uses clear, practical conversations to help people with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship concerns. Lauren aims to create a calm space where someone can talk through what matters and begin to make change.
Lauren draws on seven years of experience working with people facing depression, grief, addictions and trauma. She also supports those managing parenting challenges, career decisions and life transitions.
How Lauren works
LGBT concerns, intimacy-related issues and problems with eating or body image are part of her focus too. Her style blends attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural tools and motivational interviewing. That means she pays attention to relationship patterns, hears the person’s priorities, and uses practical steps to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Psychodynamic perspectives inform how past experiences can shape present difficulties. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and goals. Lauren explains options and works collaboratively on a straightforward plan.
Sessions can include short homework tasks, coaching-style check-ins or deeper reflective work depending on what helps. She is registered with BACP and NCPS, and practices in the United Kingdom. Conversations are held in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and a booking to suit the person’s schedule.
Lauren lists 5 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Lauren's approaches work online
Lauren often blends attachment-based work with client-centred and cognitive behavioural tools. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people notice repeated ways of relating. Client-centred therapy means the counsellor listens deeply, follows the person’s agenda and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavioural changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and together they will decide what to try first. That collaborative planning means methods can be adjusted as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face contact when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break or commute. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or times when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life.
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