Lauren Dawood

Lauren Dawood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 11 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, eating issues, mood disorders, relationship strain, career questions, and ADHD. Lauren’s work addresses life changes and the practical problems that make daily life harder.

She uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels stuck and what needs attention. Sessions focus on manageable steps rather than long lectures. Lauren draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thinking patterns, and on Client-Centered work to keep the conversation grounded in the client’s priorities.

Her approach also includes Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity. Solution-Focused methods may be used to set clear, short-term goals so progress is visible. Treatment plans reflect the client’s current concerns and what they want to change.

Lauren has worked across a range of clinical settings over the past decade. That background informs a pragmatic style that balances coping skills with attention to deeper issues like attachment, abandonment, or dissociation when those come up. She offers support for eating and body-image concerns alongside mood and trauma-related symptoms.

Sessions are conducted in English. International clients are not accepted at this time. Cost varies by location and sessions are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work

Lauren commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills in her online work. CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people change patterns that keep problems going. DBT teaches concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills useful for intense moods and relationship strain.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on what the client wants to address and how they prefer to move forward. Together these approaches help with stress, anxiety, mood problems, trauma-related reactions, and difficulties like eating concerns or career uncertainty. Finding the right mix is part of the work; Lauren will collaborate with each person to test what helps and adjust over time.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Therapists can also adapt exercises for audio or video meetings and use brief skill practices between sessions to reinforce progress.