About Lauren
Lauren Rodriguez is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. She offers straightforward, empathetic care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship concerns. She uses a calm, accepting style in sessions.
Lauren focuses on helping people name their feelings and notice patterns that get in the way of daily life. She encourages practical steps you can try between sessions and checks in about what is or isn’t helping.
Background and approach
Her work draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the client’s perspective and choices. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe personal stories and find new meanings.
Over five years she has supported people coping with life changes, grief, parenting stress, addiction, body image concerns, chronic health challenges, and workplace or career strain. Other areas she addresses include issues around intimacy, impulsivity, and family of origin dynamics. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Lauren invites people to take the first step and complete a brief matching questionnaire to find a fitting way to begin.
How Lauren’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience and choices, so online sessions give space for people to set goals and guide the work. This approach helps when someone needs listening and validation to feel understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Online CBT can include concrete tools and homework exercises for anxiety, depression, or stress that can be practiced between sessions.
Narrative Therapy helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. Working by video or text can make it easier to reflect on those stories and try new ways of describing experiences.
Finding the right approach often takes a few conversations. Lauren collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts the balance of listening, skill-teaching, and storytelling as therapy proceeds.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions or check in when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish