Lauren Purcell

Lauren Purcell is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or the strain of parenting. She also supports those coping with relationship challenges, separation, and moments of deep loneliness.

In sessions she aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk without judgment. Conversations focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. Lauren listens for patterns in attachment, communication, and repeated life themes to help people notice what keeps them stuck.

Her approach blends client-centered care with psychodynamic work, mindfulness practices, and EMDR tools when appropriate. That means she pays attention to current concerns while also looking at past experiences that shape present feelings. Mindfulness is used to strengthen awareness of thoughts and bodily responses in daily life.

People often come to address caregiver stress, social anxiety, guilt and shame, or to find clearer life purpose. She helps parents untangle parenting stress and supports people working through divorce or changing relationship roles. Lauren also works with mood disorders and attachment-related struggles.

Her style is steady and grounded. She encourages small, practical steps alongside deeper emotional work. If you choose to reach out, the first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people put words to their feelings and decide what matters most to change. This approach is helpful for stress, relationship worries, and parenting strain.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, works with memories and how they are held in the body. In practice it involves recalling a troubling memory while attending to guided bilateral stimulation to reduce distress linked to that memory. People often seek this approach for trauma, grief, and other painful past events.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels tolerable, then choose or combine methods in a collaborative way. Clients help guide which tools feel most useful as sessions progress.

Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow a shorter check-in when needed, or remove travel time. It can also let people access consistent weekly work from wherever they are able to join, while the therapist helps tailor each session to practical needs and goals.