About Lauren
Lauren Mears is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem. Lauren emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth working style and treats each person as the expert on their life.
She aims to highlight practical strengths people already have. Sessions focus on clear, real steps and skills that can be used between meetings.
How Lauren works
Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented while still making room for emotions and processing difficult experiences. Lauren often draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and to build healthier habits. She also uses client-centered techniques to follow a person's lead and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions feel overwhelming.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about change. Her work covers additional struggles such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, dissociation, loneliness, communication problems, and effects of sexual assault. Lauren pays attention to how these concerns affect day-to-day life and relationships, and she helps people find practical ways forward.
She approaches therapy as a collaboration. Together with the person she creates short-term goals and checks progress over time. The aim is clearer thinking, more effective coping, and a stronger sense of self.
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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.
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lauren uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the person and to create a respectful, listening space where a person leads the conversation. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and to make sense of their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to improve mood and reduce anxiety. CBT is useful for worry, low mood, and troubling habits.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about concerns, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they will try techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so it fits the person's life and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into work, school, or family schedules. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging allows short updates or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility so people can choose what meets their needs.
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