About Lauren
Lauren Rich is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD. She is direct and empathetic. She works with clients who want practical steps and clearer direction in their lives.
She draws on a range of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions focus on building skills for coping, shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and improving emotional regulation.
How Lauren works
She also supports career questions, life purpose, and workplace-related strain. Lauren's background includes military and law enforcement environments, sports performance, and executive coaching. That experience informs her approach to high-pressure situations and first responder issues.
She understands how stressful careers can affect relationships, energy, and focus. Therapy sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect a mix of practical tools, guided reflection, and problem-solving.
Lauren uses methods that include client-centered listening, cognitive work to change thought patterns, and skills training for intense emotions. She also helps people cope after natural or human-caused disasters, and addresses concerns such as panic attacks, process addictions, sexual difficulties, and financial stress. Lauren accepts international clients and offers sessions in English from her Oklahoma practice.
Lauren lists 11 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How Lauren's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions at the pace the client prefers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and helps build concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings or panic attacks.Finding the right approach happens together. Lauren will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she recommends a mix of methods and adjusts them as progress is made so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper work and face-to-face connection, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing busy or unpredictable schedules.
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