Lauren Christensen
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lauren
Lauren Christensen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who uses straightforward, practical methods to help people feeling overwhelmed. She focuses on reducing stress and anxiety, improving low mood, and addressing trauma and abuse. Lauren aims to make early steps feel manageable and supportive.
She communicates with respect and sensitivity and keeps conversations focused on what matters most to each person. With ten years of experience, Lauren adapts her approach to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She draws from evidence-informed methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based work. Sessions include clear tools for coping, skill practice, and moments to reflect on what is changing and why. Parents and those dealing with relationship and family concerns will find practical strategies here for parenting, communication, and blended family challenges.
Lauren also works with issues such as grief, chronic illness, compassion fatigue, and managing mood conditions like bipolar disorder. She addresses related challenges including self-esteem, body image, codependency, and commitment concerns. In sessions, conversations move between problem-solving and understanding patterns that keep difficulties going.
Lauren helps clients try small changes and notice whether those shifts help. She tailors plans rather than following a one-size-fits-all script. Lauren is licensed in Utah as an LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor).
She offers care in English and provides several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce the hold of painful thoughts and build a life worth living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when concrete strategies are needed. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and closeness. It helps people understand relationship triggers and build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lauren will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and comfort level. That may mean combining approaches and trying different tools until something feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions keep things simple, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while balancing family, work, and other commitments.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Lauren
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point