About Lauren
Lauren Cooper is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana who focuses on practical, client-centered work. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and LGBT-related concerns. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, inviting people to try small changes and notice what helps.
Lauren spends sessions listening carefully and shaping treatment around each person's goals. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow a person’s lead, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and DBT skills for emotion regulation and steadying intense moments.
Background and approach
She also draws on EMDR and Narrative Therapy when trauma or painful memories are central to the problem. In practice Lauren helps people address issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, body image, codependency, communication struggles, dissociation, domestic violence aftermath, feelings of emptiness, and family of origin concerns.
She also works with gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, jealousy, life purpose, panic disorder, and panic attacks. Sessions focus on clear, doable steps rather than vague talk. Clients who meet with her can expect flexible session styles such as video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She has five years of clinical experience and offers care as an LMHC in Indiana. Sessions are provided in English and international clients are not accepted. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules according to therapist availability.
Lauren emphasizes teamwork - clients and therapist set the pace and shape the plan together.
How Lauren’s approaches translate to online work
Lauren uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s priorities and pace. In this approach the therapist listens closely and helps people set goals that matter to them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. CBT offers hands-on exercises and simple homework that transfer well to video and messaging formats. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or intense reactions are present; DBT teaches concrete coping steps that can be practiced between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lauren will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then recommend a path forward. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for brief updates, skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English