Lauren Burns
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
About Lauren
Lauren Burns is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems. She also supports those facing grief, trauma, addictions and parenting strain. Lauren uses straightforward, compassionate conversation to help people make sense of their lives and feel steadier day to day.
She brings four years of practice experience to her work, including time supporting people as a volunteer in NHS settings. Lauren describes her approach as person-centred and flexible.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what a person needs right now rather than a fixed programme. Lauren uses ideas from attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on psychodynamic and existential thinking to help people understand meaning, choices and repeating cycles.
Cognitive behavioural strategies are used when practical steps and skills will help reduce distress quickly. In sessions she aims to offer calm, clear guidance and gentle challenge. Conversations cover practical coping skills as well as deeper reflection on family of origin, communication habits and commitment or intimacy concerns.
The goal is to leave people feeling more able to manage daily pressures and relationships. Therapy with Lauren tends to be collaborative. She helps people identify small, realistic changes and builds on their strengths.
People who want a blend of talking, practical tools and exploration of patterns often find this approach useful.
What Lauren works with
How Lauren works
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Sessions & fees
How Lauren’s approaches work online
Lauren uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. This helps when intimacy, trust or abandonment issues cause repeated conflict or feeling distant from others.She also draws on client-centred practice which focuses on listening, empathy and meeting each person where they are. That approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem and when someone needs steady support while they figure things out.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lauren will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills, deeper pattern work or a mixture of both, and this can change over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see each other and work more like in-person sessions. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or being on camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, shorter reflections or when someone needs a way to connect between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel schedules.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
