Lauren Stone, BACP

Lauren Stone is an integrative counsellor practising in the United Kingdom who creates a warm, compassionate space for adults to explore their difficulties. She is registered with the BACP, the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK, and brings ten years of clinical experience to her work with people facing a wide range of challenges.

Working from an integrative perspective, she draws on client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness techniques, and psychodynamic ideas to tailor support to each person’s needs. CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and introduce practical skills to reduce symptoms while also exploring the beliefs that underpin those patterns. Client-centered therapy offers an accepting, non-directive environment in which people can deepen their understanding of feelings, values, and choices. Psychodynamic work helps uncover recurring patterns that originate in past experiences and surface in current relationships, including moments of transference that reveal how earlier events shape present reactions.

Lauren has experience supporting people with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, self-esteem concerns, compassion fatigue, relationship and family issues, and coping with life changes. Her broader focus also includes attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, communication and control issues, separation and divorce, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, hoarding, isolation and loneliness, and questions about life purpose.

She believes that individuals are the experts in their own stories and that therapy can help activate their strengths. Lauren aims to help people process difficult events, develop greater self-compassion, and move toward the goals that matter to them. Taking the first step can require courage, and she supports people through the initial stages of seeking help and beyond.