About Lauren
Lauren Hales is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth care that helps people feel heard and build new skills. Her work often centers on anxiety, stress, mood concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Lauren aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward one step at a time. Lauren's background includes work in hospitals and independent practice across a long career.
Background and approach
That range shaped a straightforward approach: listen first, then teach tools that change old habits. She emphasizes cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside attachment and emotion-focused ideas to address how people think, feel, and connect. Sessions often focus on skills that make daily life easier.
People learn ways to manage strong emotions, cope with sleep and eating problems, and reduce impulsive reactions. Lauren also helps with issues such as addiction, bipolar mood concerns, self-harm thoughts, and difficulty with control or dependence. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to set clear, doable goals.
Those methods help people move from feeling stuck to making small, steady changes. The therapist combines evidence-based tools with practical suggestions like exercise and mindfulness when helpful. Lauren works with concerns related to parenting, communication problems, jealousy, isolation, and career stress.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. The overall aim is to give people skills, understanding, and confidence to handle life’s challenges.
Therapeutic approaches for online counseling and real-life change
Attachment-Based Therapy supports understanding how close relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people see patterns in how they connect with others and learn ways to feel safer in relationships and manage strong emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, improve sleep, and change behaviors that cause problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with core emotions that drive reactions. It can be useful for improving communication, reducing reactivity, and building stronger emotional awareness.
Lauren will work together with each person to choose the right approaches based on goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. Figuring out what fits best is part of the process, and plans can change as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are handy for brief reflections, real-time coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and varying schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English