About Lauren
Lauren Prina is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma. She writes and talks with clients in a respectful, sensitive way.
Background and approach
Lauren focuses on practical steps that can make everyday life feel more manageable. She shapes each session around what the person brings in that day.
Conversations and plans are tailored to individual needs rather than a one-size-fits-all script. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping skills, and small changes that add up over time.
With four years of clinical experience, she has worked with people dealing with depression, grief, addictions, and challenges around self-esteem and body image. Lauren also supports those coping with attachment issues, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and the effects of domestic violence or dissociation.
She is familiar with mood and personality challenges including bipolar disorder, ADHD, avoidant and dependent personality traits, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Lauren also addresses communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, and problems that arise from eating or anger issues.
Therapy sessions are available in English and offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lauren uses conversational, goal-oriented work to help people move forward at a pace they can manage.
Therapeutic Methods and Online Care
Lauren draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom relief and skill building. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing more balanced ideas so anxiety and low mood become easier to manage. This kind of work helps with worry, depression, and self-critical thinking.Another approach centers on improving relationships and communication. It teaches clearer ways to express needs, set boundaries, and resolve conflicts, which can reduce repeated arguments and loneliness. These methods are useful for people facing family tension, codependency, or commitment worries.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjust techniques over time. Clients help set the pace and decide which strategies to try first.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations; phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing is easier than talking. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English