About Lauren
Lauren McCallister is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Lauren aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through concerns and find workable tools.
Her approach blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Jungian ideas. She draws on these methods to address anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and stress.
How Lauren works
Sessions often include skill-building and gentle reflection to help clients manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns. Lauren also helps people facing anger, low self-esteem, life transitions, addiction, grief, and career-related stress. She supports concerns tied to ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and forgiveness. Her work includes attention to first responder issues, coping after disasters, dissociation, and challenges linked to autism and antisocial personality traits. Lauren prefers an individualized plan rather than a one-size-fits-all recipe.
She encourages open dialogue so she can match techniques to what each person finds most useful. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Lauren uses a collaborative process to set goals and track progress.
The aim is steady, practical change people can notice between sessions.
Lauren lists 7 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes safety in relationships and explores how early bonds shape current patterns. Online work using this approach focuses on building trust, noticing relationship triggers, and practicing new ways of connecting with others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. In remote sessions CBT usually includes short homework tasks, thought records, and step-by-step behavior changes that can be tracked between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. Online DBT sessions often pair skill coaching with in-session practice so clients can use tools during daily stressors.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a while and then adapting the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a short check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and text options let people share thoughts between sessions or check in when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools in real time.
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A practical next step
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