Lauren Gordon
Person-centred counsellor for everyday struggles
About Lauren
Lauren Gordon helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, low mood, or anxiety. She works with those facing relationship difficulties, parenting strain, or questions about identity. Lauren uses a straightforward, respectful approach to help people take the first steps toward change.
She prefers short, honest conversations that focus on what matters to the person in front of her. Sessions aim to build confidence, calm anxious thoughts, and improve everyday coping. Lauren adapts her way of working to suit each person's needs rather than following a fixed script.
Background and approach
Her background includes seven years of professional practice in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP. That membership means she follows recognised professional standards in her work.
People bring a wide range of concerns to her, including trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image matters, anger, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas she focuses on include attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and chronic illness or pain challenges.
Lauren also supports people dealing with communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, and problems tied to control or avoidance. Her style is practical and person-led, helping people set small goals and try new ways of managing day-to-day life.
What Lauren works with
How Lauren works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care online and how it helps
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's own goals. The counsellor offers empathy, acceptance, and gentle guidance while the person leads the pace and topics. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood, relationship worries, identity questions, and building self-esteem.Lauren treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust how sessions are run accordingly. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasise practical coping steps, reflective conversation, or short-term goal work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls are useful for a near face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can work for short check-ins or for people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options help people access support from different locations and at different times.
| 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
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
