Lauren Oates , LPCC

Lauren Oates is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky. She uses a person-centered approach that starts with listening. She aims to tailor sessions to each person’s goals and strengths rather than focusing only on diagnoses.

Lauren draws on several practical methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness, to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, parenting strain, and body image. Her work includes support around trauma, domestic violence, dissociation, ADHD, and other co-occurring concerns.

With five years of experience in community mental health settings, Lauren is familiar with real-life challenges people face. She helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps. Sessions are focused, straightforward, and aimed at usable change between meetings.

She offers different ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability.

Lauren speaks English and works with people seeking help with women’s issues among other concerns. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules a session according to therapist availability.

How these approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person as an individual. In practice that means sessions start with the client’s goals and the therapist reflects what matters most to the client to guide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and introduces small experiments and new skills to change patterns over time. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and name strong feelings and how those feelings affect relationships and connections.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lauren will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative conversation helps shape whether sessions lean more toward skills-based CBT, exploring emotions, or a person-centered mix of strategies.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for frequent, brief support, check-ins, or homework prompts between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into daily life.