About Lauren
Lauren Turner is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with nine years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on real problems people face every day. Her style is practical and respectful, and she aims to help clients move toward clearer choices and better coping skills.
Lauren draws on client-centered work to make sessions feel collaborative. She listens first and follows the client's lead to set priorities.
Background and approach
When helpful, she uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and develop small, manageable experiments to test new ways of responding. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when people want help making a change. That method supports people in clarifying their reasons for change and building momentum at their own pace.
She also blends solution-focused techniques to keep sessions goal-oriented and to highlight what is already working. Lauren has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addiction, and grief. She also helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, body image, parenting stress, career decisions, and coping with life changes.
Her work includes supporting people with ADHD, chronic illness, trauma and abuse, and co-occurring challenges. People can expect straightforward conversations, practical tools, and space to explore feelings. Lauren keeps plans flexible and tailors her approach to each person’s needs.
She is licensed in Ohio as LISW and holds LCSW licensure in North Carolina.
How Lauren's Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Client-centered work puts the person's concerns in the lead and creates a collaborative space online where goals and priorities guide each session. This approach helps when someone needs a flexible, listening-based start to therapy.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online sessions can include practical exercises and homework that help with anxiety, depression, ADHD strategies, and coping with stress.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques can be taught and practiced during video or phone sessions and reinforced through brief reminders in messaging formats.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Lauren will talk with each person about what they want to change, their daily routines, and how they prefer to work. Together they pick methods and goals that match needs and comfort level, and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and noticing body language. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and fit a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, North Carolina
- Languages
- English