Lauren Stone, BACP

Lauren Stone practices at Our Mindful Counsellor and creates a warm, compassionate environment for adults to explore their concerns. She is an integrative counsellor registered with BACP - the UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists - and draws on a range of therapeutic methods to offer effective support.

Her work is focused on helping people process difficult events that limit their wellbeing and potential, while cultivating greater self-understanding and kindness. Lauren uses evidence-informed techniques to support clients experiencing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, relationship and family difficulties, grief, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in her practice looks at how thoughts, emotions and behaviours interact, offering practical skills to reduce symptoms and then exploring where core beliefs began. Person-centred work prioritises the client’s perspective, encouraging autonomy and honesty while the therapist accepts and reflects that viewpoint. Psychodynamic approaches are used to uncover repeating patterns of thinking and behaviour that may stem from earlier life experiences, helping to illuminate how those patterns affect current relationships.

Lauren also supports people with more specific concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and aims to build on existing strengths to move through challenges. Taking the first step can take courage, and Lauren offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence for that work.