Lauren Prina , LMFT

Lauren Prina is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She works with individuals navigating mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, struggles with substance use, and questions around identity and self-worth. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Lauren aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people feel heard and supported.

Her approach is tailored to each person's needs. Conversations and plans are built around what matters most to the client. She draws on four years of clinical experience in California to offer practical steps for coping, communication, and emotional regulation. Lauren also helps people address eating and body image concerns, codependency, and grief.

She pays attention to patterns that cause pain, like attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and problems with commitment or boundaries. Lauren helps people untangle these patterns and try new ways of relating to others. She also works with those affected by domestic violence, dissociation, and disruptive mood challenges.

Sessions may include strategies for handling anger, improving communication, and reducing addictive behaviors. Lauren supports clients exploring LGBT identity and the stress that can come with it. Her work emphasizes small, achievable changes that build confidence and relief over time.

Therapy is offered in English through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lauren explains the process, listens to each person’s goals, and adjusts the work as progress is made.

Approaches and online care that fit your life

Lauren uses evidence-based techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and feel steadier day to day. One common approach she uses helps people identify and shift repeated thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or depression, leading to clearer coping steps and calmer routines. Another approach targets relationship and attachment patterns to improve communication, set boundaries, and reduce recurring conflict that causes stress.

Finding the right way of working is a team effort. Lauren will talk with each person about goals, test different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She encourages feedback and checks in often so the approach stays relevant to the client’s needs and preferences.

Online therapy offers flexible options to fit busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support more frequent touchpoints between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school commitments while still keeping steady progress.