Lauryn Blanding , LPC

Lauryn Blanding is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy with warmth and clear listening, helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed take practical steps toward change. Lauryn focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship pain, and she emphasizes steady, compassionate support as people work through hard moments.

Her sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She helps people name what matters to them, notice patterns that cause pain, and try new ways of responding. Conversations may include skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling life transitions such as separation or grief.

Lauryn often uses techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment, cognitive behavioral, and emotionally-focused approaches. That means she helps clients accept difficult feelings, test helpful thoughts and behaviors, and strengthen connections with others. She also brings skills from dialectical behavior approaches when people need help with intense emotions or impulsive reactions.

She has particular experience supporting people facing parenting strain, caregiver stress, intimacy-related issues, and family-of-origin concerns. Lauryn also works with those coping with career stress, first responder stress, and the ups and downs of bipolar disorder.

Sessions are offered in English and are provided from South Carolina. The focus is on clear steps, compassionate listening, and practical tools people can use between sessions.

Approaches that shape online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small steps toward the life they value; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions in close relationships and building stronger emotional bonds to address intimacy and communication problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and what’s happening in their life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people read expressions and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy life while working on relationships, stress, and mood.