Lauren Oates, LPCC

Lauren Oates is an LPCC practicing in Kentucky. She uses a person-centered approach and helps people shape therapy around their goals and needs. Lauren emphasizes clients' strengths and works to help them move toward a healthier, more balanced life.

With five years of experience, she brings practical, down-to-earth support for a range of concerns. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and life changes, and address relationship and intimacy-related issues. Other areas of focus include parenting, self-esteem, mood concerns, ADHD, body image, and trauma and abuse.

Lauren adapts her style to match what each person finds useful. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and emotionally-focused methods, and she uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing when they fit the situation. Sessions are guided by the client’s aims rather than a fixed agenda.

She can also offer art-based work for people who find making things helpful when words are hard. Art-based activities can help reveal feelings, clarify values, or simply provide a different way to process experience.

If you are thinking about therapy, Lauren encourages a simple first step. Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session. That initial meeting is a chance to set goals and decide how to proceed.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. In practice this means sessions start with your goals and pace, and the therapist reflects back what matters to you to help clarify next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to test new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, or mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions, then work through them to improve connection and emotional regulation.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Lauren will work with each person to figure out which methods fit best for their concerns, goals, and preferences. Early sessions are used to try approaches and adjust the plan based on what helps most.

Session formats and technical details are not listed here, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, or allow for a shorter check-in when schedules are tight. It also supports using worksheets, breathing exercises, or brief between-session tasks that reinforce progress without requiring extra office visits.