About Lauren
Lauren Stone offers approachable, person-focused counselling that centres the client’s experience. She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and the effects of trauma and abuse. Lauren aims to create a calm space where adults can talk about difficult events and start to move forward.
With ten years of experience she draws on several therapeutic styles to suit different concerns. Client-Centred Therapy shapes sessions around each person’s viewpoint, inviting honest reflection and more independence.
How Lauren works
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) introduces simple skills for spotting unhelpful thinking and changing patterns that fuel distress. Lauren also uses mindfulness techniques to help quiet racing thoughts and improve day-to-day coping. Psychodynamic ideas are used when it helps to look at recurring patterns and where they might have begun.
Together these approaches aim to increase understanding and reduce the things that keep someone feeling stuck. She works with a wide range of issues including relationship and family problems, grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and life transitions. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Sessions combine practical exercises and reflective discussion. Lauren encourages people to notice their strengths and to take manageable steps toward change. Signing up is presented as a clear first step rather than a leap into the unknown.
Lauren lists 4 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that suit online working
Lauren combines Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people make progress through online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own perspective and encourages self-awareness and independence, which works well in conversational video or chat sessions. CBT teaches practical skills for spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour, and these techniques translate easily to phone, video and text formats for hands-on work.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Lauren treats it as a team decision. She will talk through goals, preferences and how someone responds to different exercises, then adjust the mix of reflective and skills-based work accordingly. That collaborative planning helps ensure the therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues during longer sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel quicker for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, brief exercises or days when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility so therapy can be arranged around work, caregiving or other commitments rather than the other way around.
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