Lauren Stone

Lauren Stone is a counsellor who works from a person-centred approach and draws on cognitive behavioural, mindfulness and psychodynamic methods. She holds registration with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and has around ten years of experience supporting adults. Lauren aims to create a calm, understanding space where people can talk about what feels hard right now.

She helps people manage stress and anxiety and to work through trauma, grief and depression. Sessions also address relationship strains, compassion fatigue, low self-esteem and major life changes. Isolation and loneliness are included among the concerns she can help with, alongside issues such as attachment, abandonment and life purpose.

Lauren uses practical CBT techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and to build skills that ease distress. She combines this with client-centred listening so people feel heard and can explore their own solutions. Psychodynamic ideas are used to look at repeating patterns and how past events may influence present-day responses.

Her work is straightforward and conversational. Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that make day-to-day life feel less overwhelming. Lauren encourages people to notice their strengths and to try new ways of coping between sessions.

To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule appointments according to availability. Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and the service uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How Lauren’s approaches translate to online counselling

Lauren draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy. Client-centred work means the counsellor listens closely and follows the person’s concerns so sessions feel focused on what matters now. It helps people gain confidence to make choices and to voice feelings they may have avoided.

CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because it gives concrete steps to try between sessions. Both approaches can be used alongside mindfulness practices to help people stay present and notice patterns without judgement.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss each person’s needs, goals and preferences and then agree how to combine methods. That collaborative planning can change over time as different issues emerge.

The biography does not list which online or in-person formats are offered, so please confirm available session types before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to keep continuity of care when routines change, while the therapist and client decide together what works best for regular sessions.