About Lauren
Dr. Lauren Smith helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family-related challenges. She works with concerns like parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD.
Her practice also focuses on adoption and foster care experiences, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and women’s issues. She has 13 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
How Lauren works
Dr. Smith practices in Florida and speaks English. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
Sessions aim to make sense of difficult feelings and practical problems. She listens for how personal history and relationships shape current stress and reactions. Dr.
Smith draws on a mix of methods to match a person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness to increase present-moment awareness. Jungian ideas and client-centered conversation also inform the work when useful.
She pays attention to trauma and to how identity and life context matter. The goal is to build clearer everyday coping, better communication in close relationships, and a stronger sense of self. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy steps to match and schedule a session.
Lauren lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Lauren works with
The areas below are the ones Lauren selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. Online sessions can use this approach to identify recurring patterns in close relationships and practice new interactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior that can be reviewed together in sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That lets them pick or combine methods that fit the situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are set by the practice. Online therapy can save travel time and make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. It also supports using short skill-practice between meetings, reviewing thought records, or checking in during a transitional week. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches so that tools and conversation fit everyday life and specific challenges.
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A practical next step
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