Lauren Prina
Family-focused therapist guiding practical change
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lauren
Lauren Prina is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma. She works in California and brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make conversations feel manageable for a worried parent picking up their phone.
Lauren adapts the pace and content of sessions to each family's needs. She listens for what matters most and builds a plan that reflects those priorities.
Background and approach
She helps people talk through relationship problems, grief, mood concerns, substance issues, and questions about identity across the LGBT spectrum. With four years of clinical experience, Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. She attends to attachment and communication patterns and addresses issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care dynamics, codependency, and body image concerns.
She also supports people managing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, dissociation, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Sessions may include practical communication skills, emotion regulation strategies, and steps to reduce harmful behaviors related to addiction or domestic violence. Lauren emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping clients set achievable goals.
Her approach combines real-world tools with steady support. She offers therapy in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.
Lauren aims to empower clients as they take the first steps toward change.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Lauren uses established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One approach focuses on improving communication and attachment patterns to help families and partners reduce conflict and feel more understood. This method teaches clear, small steps for talking and listening that can ease tense interactions.Another common approach emphasizes emotion regulation and coping strategies for anxiety, depression, trauma, and mood instability. Clients learn practical tools to manage overwhelming feelings and to respond differently to stressful moments rather than react in old patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they adjust methods over time to fit the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for busy families and parents who need appointments outside traditional office hours. Remote sessions make it easier to keep continuity of care during life transitions while still allowing a licensed professional to guide progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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