About
- Attachment-based work
- CBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Lauren
Dr. Lauren Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 13 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and family-related issues. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, anger, and intimacy challenges.
She works with adults who are juggling parenting, blended family arrangements, adoption or foster care histories, and the day-to-day pressures of family life. She helps people talk through difficult past experiences such as post-traumatic stress and attachment wounds. She also supports those managing ADHD and the specific demands that bring to family roles.
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, Jungian perspectives, and mindfulness practices. In practical terms she helps people notice patterns, practice new responses, and set manageable goals. Sessions are conversational and focused on what will make life more manageable at home.
Dr. Smith pays attention to how identity and life story shape relationships and parenting choices. She has specific experience with adoption and foster care issues and with divorce and separation as it affects family dynamics. She brings 13 years of experience to these topics and works in English.
To start, readers are asked to use the site's matching process to schedule a first appointment. The sign-up asks a few questions and then lets you pick a time for an initial session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current family roles. Online sessions can help people notice attachment patterns, practice new ways of relating, and apply changes to parenting or partner interactions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes active listening and the client's own goals. In remote sessions this means a focus on what matters most to the person and adapting conversations to their immediate concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses exercises to change unhelpful habits. Delivered online, CBT often includes short homework tasks and practical skill-building for use between sessions.Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to test approaches, check what helps, and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. This is a shared process rather than a fixed plan.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking because they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit a session into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also makes it possible to practice skills in the environment where family life happens, then bring observations back into sessions for discussion.
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Experience
13+ years
Listed in
Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family concerns does she address?
She supports people with parenting strain, blended family issues, adoption and foster care histories, divorce and separation impacts, and general family stress.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses client-centered listening combined with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people change patterns and manage emotions.
How many years has she been practicing?
She has 13 years of clinical experience working with adults on trauma, mood, anxiety, and family-related concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - with TN LCSW and FL LCSW credentials and practices in Florida.
Can she work with non-US or international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats does she offer?
Confirm current session options before booking since the available formats are not specified here.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.