About Lauren
Lauren Ball is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting challenges, trauma, and substance concerns. She focuses on practical steps that fit daily life and the goals you set. Lauren aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s happening and try solutions that feel doable.
She uses straightforward, action-oriented work in sessions. The focus is usually on what is happening now and what can be changed.
Background and approach
Past events are brought in only when they help explain current patterns or beliefs that get in the way. Lauren emphasizes strengths and clear strategies rather than clinical jargon. She helps people develop coping tools, manage emotions, and build skills for better communication and problem solving.
Sessions often include goal setting and checking progress together. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, family conflict, adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, and challenges that come with caregiving or chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with codependency, infidelity, mood disorders, and workplace problems.
Based in California, Lauren draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and Trauma-Focused approaches to shape practical plans. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make working on goals more flexible.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, workplace stress, and learning new ways to react to difficult situations.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It is useful when strong emotions and relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lauren will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and personal style. That plan can shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, coaching-style check-ins, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to create flexibility so therapy can move forward around other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English