Lauren Dawood, LPC, LCMHC

Lauren Dawood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who practices in North Carolina. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, mood challenges, and concerns related to LGBT issues. She also supports work on eating and body image struggles, trauma and abuse, relationship stress, ADHD, and career pressures.

Her style is warm and respectful. She listens first and tailors conversations to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and on understanding patterns that cause pain.

Lauren draws on approaches that are straightforward and skills-based. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the client. She brings cognitive behavioral tools to shift thinking and habits, and she uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills.

Over 11 years of professional experience inform her practice. She aims to help people notice small changes that make daily life easier. Her work also addresses complex issues like trauma responses, dissociation, and co-occurring conditions.

She asks questions about current struggles, history, and daily routines to form a plan together. The plan is adjusted over time based on what helps most. Lauren emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every step.

How her approaches shape online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and directs work toward their priorities and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and everyday habits to find small changes that ease symptoms and improve functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete coping skills like emotion regulation and distress tolerance for intense moods.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The biography does not specify session delivery methods, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, avoid travel time, or use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and skill practice to remote sessions so therapeutic work continues between meetings.