Lauren Christensen , LCMHC

Lauren Christensen is a licensed counselor (LCMHC) in Utah with ten years of practice. She focuses on women's issues alongside common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Lauren aims to make the first steps toward change feel more manageable and less lonely.

She uses clear, practical conversations to help people build everyday skills. Sessions focus on concrete goals like managing anxiety, improving sleep, handling grief, or coping with life changes. Lauren also helps with relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, and work-related stress.

Her approach combines methods that encourage values-based action, skills for emotional regulation, and attention to attachment patterns. That mix helps when someone is facing abandonment wounds, body image concerns, chronic illness, or the fallout of past abuse. The work often includes pacing progress, learning new coping tools, and practicing small behavioral steps between meetings.

Lauren describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens with respect and tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation. This means sessions can shift between talking, skill practice, and problem-solving depending on what the person needs that week.

People who choose her work with a therapist who emphasizes kindness, practical tools, and steady support. The goal is clearer thinking, improved day-to-day functioning, and actions that match what matters to each person.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, consistent steps toward those values while learning to sit with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for stress, mood problems, and skills-based coping. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape expectations and emotion responses, helping with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and relationship patterns.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to emphasize based on needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and practicing short skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical change and steady support.