Dr. Lauren Pitts-Bounds, LMFT

Dr. Lauren Pitts-Bounds helps people address relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, grief, intimacy issues, anger, career transitions, and ADHD concerns. She names practical goals and focuses on changes that matter day to day. Dr. Pitts-Bounds is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 13 years of experience and brings a direct, faith-informed perspective to sessions.

Her approach blends solution-focused strategies with cognitive behavioral ideas to break problems into manageable steps. She uses attachment-informed thinking to look at patterns that repeat in relationships. Sessions often include goal setting, skills practice, and feedback so people can try new ways of relating between meetings.

Clients can expect a warm, straightforward style that mixes encouragement with concrete suggestions. She also uses motivational interviewing ideas to help people move through ambivalence and commit to change. Work can include coaching-style conversations about career and life transitions alongside clinical tools for coping.

Dr. Pitts-Bounds trained in couple, marriage, and family therapy and holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management. She has presented widely as a speaker and coach and draws on lived experience when addressing family and community challenges.

Based in Delaware, she offers sessions in English. Her background includes public speaking and program development, and she frames therapy as a collaborative process toward clearer choices and healthier relationships.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Dr. Pitts-Bounds uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing day-to-day reactions. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to examine how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, helping with intimacy and trust issues. Client-Centered Therapy informs the way she listens and reflects, giving people space to lead the conversation while she follows with focused questions and support.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, trying tools and adjusting direction as needed. This makes therapy more practical and helps clients see which strategies feel most helpful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and skills practice, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving even when schedules change.