Lauren Heenan

Lauren Heenan is a counsellor who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can speak honestly about their feelings. Lauren encourages small steps and practical changes, recognising that reaching out for support is itself significant.

With five years of experience and registration with BACP and NCPS, she brings steady clinical work to common life problems. Her background includes work around trauma, self-esteem and peri-natal mental health. Lauren listens for patterns that keep causing pain and gently guides people to notice different choices.

Sessions tend to blend practical tools with time to reflect. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy offers ways to test thoughts and try new behaviours. Client-centred work focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her.

She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand how past relationships affect current reactions. Solution-focused conversations are used when people want quick, concrete steps to move forward. Together these approaches help with grief, parenting worries, intimacy issues and the pressure of life changes.

If someone is facing separation or divorce, Lauren can help them talk through decisions and cope with the emotions that follow. She supports people through parenting concerns, blended family challenges and the complicated feelings that come after relationship breakdown. Lauren aims to help clients find clearer thinking and steadier coping in everyday life.

How Lauren uses common therapy approaches online

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and decide what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and actions and offers simple experiments to test new ways of coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lauren will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide what to try first. That makes the process collaborative rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around busy days and removing travel time so therapy can be easier to attend. Different session styles can suit different needs, so please confirm which formats are offered before booking. Registered or accredited professionals, including counsellors, often find online work helps people keep consistency when life is hectic, allows shorter check-ins between appointments, and makes it simpler to build new coping routines into everyday life.