About Lauren
Lauren Lynch is an AASW-accredited social worker who helps adults and young adults who feel stuck in patterns like overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing or emotional overwhelm. She names identity, body image and eating concerns alongside anxiety, trauma and relationship strain as common reasons people seek support.
Her style is warm, practical and collaborative, with an emphasis on building self-compassion and clearer connection to values. Lauren sees how coping strategies that once helped can later get in the way of recovery and everyday life.
How Lauren works
Sessions often focus on spotting the patterns that keep someone stuck, learning skills to manage intense emotions, and practising different ways to communicate needs. She uses straightforward exercises and real-world experiments so changes can be tested between sessions. Her background includes 15 years of clinical experience and specialist work in eating disorder care.
Lauren has worked as an ANZAED eating disorder clinician and brings that focused experience to concerns about body image and food-related issues. She understands how eating difficulties often link with control, shame, trauma and identity. Lauren identifies as Aboriginal and queer and aims to provide culturally safe, inclusive and affirming care.
She welcomes people from diverse cultural and gender backgrounds and pays attention to how identity shapes the issues that come into therapy. Therapy with Lauren is paced to each person’s needs and priorities. She supports clients to reduce avoidance, strengthen emotional regulation, and move toward a life that feels more connected to what matters to them.
Lauren lists 9 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Lauren often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her work. ACT focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lauren will work collaboratively to decide which strategies suit a person’s goals, preferences and the issues they bring. That might mean blending ACT and CBT tools, practising emotion regulation skills, or using gentle exposure tasks tailored to a client’s pace.
Online therapy can make regular care easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats increase flexibility and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
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