About Lauren
Lauren Midkiff is a licensed social worker with three years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people build motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. She also supports those coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, and depression.
Lauren uses a straightforward, respectful style and encourages clients to notice their own strengths. Lauren believes each person knows their story best. She helps people name what feels stuck and identify small, practical steps forward.
How Lauren works
Sessions tend to be calm and goal-focused, with attention to what the client wants to change and how to get there. Her background includes work with relationship and intimacy-related concerns and career challenges. Lauren also addresses attachment issues, body image and codependency, and navigates topics such as infidelity, commitment worries, and blended family dynamics.
She is familiar with conversations around BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture and approaches those topics without judgment. Lauren helps people work through fertility-related stress, grief around family problems, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. She supports coping with impulsivity, control issues, communication breakdowns, and forgiveness work.
Coaching-style conversations are available for clients seeking direction on goals and motivation. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lauren’s approach centers on collaboration, respect for each person’s expertise, and practical steps that fit everyday life.
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
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she applies helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior, then practice different responses to lower anxiety and improve mood. Another approach centers on attachment and relationship patterns, helping clients notice how past relationships shape current reactions and teaching new ways to relate and communicate.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lauren works with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexibility for quick emotional support or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family, and daily life while keeping treatment focused and practical.
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