Lauren Roberts
Supportive integrative counselling for practical change
About Lauren
Lauren Roberts is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration, and she works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, LGBT matters and ADHD. Her approach is practical and person-focused, aiming to make talking about hard things straightforward and useful.
She uses an integrative way of working, bringing together different evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
That means sessions are shaped around what helps the individual, not a fixed set of steps. Conversations cover symptoms, life events and patterns that keep problems going, and focus on small changes that people can try between sessions. Lauren also supports people with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, body image, and problems around communication and commitment.
She is familiar with working through sexual identity and alternative sexual cultures, and with the complexities that can come from chronic illness or caregiving stress. Sessions aim to be direct and calm. Lauren helps people understand their emotional reactions and practises skills to manage intense moments.
She also offers space to grieve losses and to process traumatic experiences at a pace that feels manageable. Work begins by talking about what matters most and setting clear, short-term goals. The style is collaborative and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use in their everyday lives.
What Lauren works with
Sessions & fees
How her therapeutic methods work online
Lauren practises an integrative approach that pulls from well-established therapeutic techniques and adapts them for each person. One common method focuses on understanding patterns of thinking and behaviour so people can test small changes that reduce anxiety and stress. Another strand works with processing traumatic memories and strong emotional reactions at a careful pace to reduce their day-to-day impact.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the person’s goals, and adjust as progress unfolds. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences, comfort and practical needs guide which techniques are used.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want flexible timing, or who find it easier to reflect in words rather than speech. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
