Lauren Burns, BACP

Lauren Burns approaches therapy with a focus on helping people fully acknowledge and work with their personal stories. She encourages self-compassion and uses that foundation to explore challenges such as anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, addiction, and the stresses of life change. Lauren draws on an integrative, client-centered style that adapts to each person’s needs so that therapy is practical, relatable, and tailored to what helps most for them.

With four years of experience, Lauren has worked in both private practice and in volunteer roles within the NHS, bringing insight from a range of settings. She blends client-centered, psychodynamic, existential, and cognitive approaches to help clients understand patterns, uncover underlying issues, and build concrete coping strategies. Her training includes BACP, which indicates membership in the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a national professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Lauren places emphasis on a collaborative, non-judgmental working relationship and moves at a pace that feels right for each person. She supports people through parenting and family concerns, intimacy and attachment issues, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with self-esteem, anger, or career-related stress. Lauren also works with clients on substance and behavioural addictions, codependency, and complex family-of-origin problems.

Clients who work with Lauren can expect to build practical tools and self-understanding aimed at increasing resilience and greater confidence outside of therapy. She accepts clients in the United Kingdom and works with international clients as well.

Approach-Focused Online Therapy and Flexible Support

Lauren offers online therapy using approaches that aim to combine understanding with practical change. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns affect present feelings and behaviours, and can be helpful for intimacy issues, attachment difficulties, and family challenges. Client-Centered Therapy prioritises the person’s perspective, offering empathic listening and support to build self-awareness and confidence, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping, making it effective for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of the process. Lauren works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and needs, and together they decide which methods or combination of methods are most likely to help. That collaborative stance helps ensure therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility around work, family, and location. These options let clients access ongoing support from registered professionals while fitting therapy into busy lives and varied time zones.