About Lauren
Lauren Kelly is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 26 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and addiction. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are, working to restore balance and rebuild connection.
Background and approach
Her approach is down-to-earth and direct, with a sense of humor when it fits the moment. Kelly focuses on relationships and how they shape daily life.
She uses practical strategies to address sleeping and eating concerns, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, and career shifts. She also supports people coping with trauma, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and life transitions.
Her style blends listening with goal-focused work. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill-building, and exploring patterns that keep people stuck.
She aims to make sessions useful right away so clients leave with clear next steps. Lauren draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques.
She adapts tools to each person’s goals rather than following a single method. Her family therapy background shapes how she looks at connections and patterns across relationships.
She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Lauren practices in Georgia and conducts work in English.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first by focusing sessions on what matters most to the client. It emphasizes listening and building a respectful therapeutic relationship, which helps with relationship concerns, grief, and life-purpose work.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and managing mood shifts.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping. It can be helpful for stress, compassion fatigue, and emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and how they respond in early sessions. Plans are adjusted over time when needed.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging helps with shorter updates or coaching between longer sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into busy lives while using approaches that focus on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Georgia
- Languages
- English