Lauryn Blanding , LPC

Lauryn Blanding is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who brings eight years of clinical experience to her work with individuals, couples, adolescents, and families. She aims to create a compassionate therapeutic relationship in which clients feel understood as they share personal and vulnerable concerns. Through empathic listening and collaborative goal setting, she supports people in identifying current needs and developing practical skills to navigate life stressors and relational challenges.

Her practice addresses a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, self-esteem concerns, grief, parenting struggles, and career-related stress. Lauryn also works with attachment and family-of-origin issues, caregiver stress, first responder concerns, intimacy and commitment problems, and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder. She has specialized training in couples and marriage therapy and additional experience working with adolescents and their families, helping young people manage depression, anxiety, and peer or family conflict.

Lauryn blends evidence-based approaches with a warm, person-focused stance to help clients build healthier patterns and move toward meaningful change. She is particularly invested in supporting couples and families as they strengthen communication and repair relational patterns, and she offers guidance to adolescents and young adults as they develop coping strategies and emotional resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Lauryn frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which emphasizes accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with personal values - a helpful approach for anxiety, stress, and navigating life transitions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a practical framework for depression, anxiety, and coping skill development. For relationship-focused work, Lauryn incorporates Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) techniques to help partners and families understand emotional responses and strengthen connection and repair.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lauryn works with each person or couple to explore goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then tailors the therapy plan so it fits the client's needs and supports steady progress.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations. These formats allow therapists and licensed professionals to maintain regular contact, practice new skills between sessions, and adapt session style to what works best for the individual or family.