Lauren Stone, BACP

Lauren Stone is an integrative counsellor registered with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP), the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. She offers a warm, confident and compassionate space where adults can bring their concerns and begin to explore what is getting in the way of their well-being. Working in an integrative way, she draws on several therapeutic models to tailor sessions to each person’s needs and goals.

Her practice focuses on helping clients process difficult events and patterns that limit their ability to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical skills that relieve symptoms while also exploring how those beliefs began. Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s perspective at the heart of the work, supporting self-exploration and fostering independence rather than direction. Psychodynamic work helps uncover recurring patterns of thought and behaviour rooted in past experience, including moments when feelings are redirected in the therapy relationship and can be explored for greater insight.

Lauren has experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, self-esteem and relationship difficulties, among other challenges. She works collaboratively and acknowledges that clients are experts in their own stories, bringing strengths that will support change. She recognises that taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and aims to make that step as approachable as possible.