About Lauren
Lauren Krall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship challenges, and the stress of life changes. Lauren aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She uses client-centered methods to listen and understand each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people notice patterns in thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness. Lauren has helped people with trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports those coping with family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and communication or commitment problems.
Practical tools and small experiments between sessions are often part of the work. Sessions mix empathy with clear, doable steps. Lauren encourages clients to set goals and to track small changes over time.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and offers structure when it’s needed. Lauren offers sessions in English and practices from Pennsylvania. Her background includes a master’s degree and more than a decade and a half of direct clinical work.
She frames therapy as a team effort and focuses on helping people build skills they can use outside the session.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating with steady feedback. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s perspective and priorities; in online sessions the therapist follows the client’s lead while offering reflective listening and support. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes. In remote work this often includes setting specific homework tasks and reviewing results together.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that fit the client’s goals and preferences. Together they’ll check progress and adjust techniques when something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and do more in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for frequent, brief support and for practicing skills between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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