Lauren Christensen
Compassionate cognitive and client-centered care
LCMHC Utah
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Lauren
Lauren Christensen is a licensed mental health counselor who draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside other evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression.
Background and approach
With a decade of professional experience in clinical settings, she adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person's situation, emphasizing respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her work also addresses self-esteem, motivation, relationship and family concerns, grief, and challenges such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and chronic illness.
Christensen takes a collaborative stance with clients, seeking to understand how past experiences like abandonment, attachment disruptions, or adoption and foster care history relate to current patterns.
She incorporates techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when appropriate, tailoring interventions to goals around intimacy, parenting, career pressures, anger management, or coping after loss. Licensed in Utah as an LCMHC, she supports people as they take the often-difficult first steps toward greater balance and wellbeing.
Integrating practical therapies for online care
Lauren regularly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete coping skills. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-driven change and willingness to experience difficult emotions while pursuing meaningful goals, a useful approach for grief, chronic illness, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy informs her understanding of relational patterns and helps address issues rooted in early bonds, such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, and family dynamics.Choosing the right approach is often a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to clarify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, combining elements from different methods as needed so treatment fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for schedules, mobility limitations, and geographic constraints. These formats can make it easier to attend regularly, practice skills between sessions, and maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Utah
Languages
English