About me
I'm Lauren Taylor, a UKCP-registered integrative psychotherapist based in Esher, Surrey, also working in London and online across the UK.
I work with three groups of people who, in my experience, share more than they first realise.
Professionals under sustained pressure. You're delivering on the metrics that matter externally, but underneath the performance something is quietly fraying. Chronic low-grade anxiety. 3 am wake-ups. A hollow feeling that has crept in alongside the success. Twenty years in investment banking and high-pressure finance before I retrained gave me a rare, firsthand understanding of what this world asks of the people inside it. I know why you haven't asked for help easily. And I understand what you need when you finally do.
Women in their 40s and 50s. This is often a decade of quiet reckoning. Identity shifting, relationships changing, something calling for attention you can't ignore any longer. These transitions rarely arrive loudly; more often as a creeping unease, a low-grade dissatisfaction, or the growing sense that the life you've been building no longer fits. What's needed is space: to slow down, look inward, and understand what this chapter is actually calling for.
Parents. Parenting is one of the most demanding and most underacknowledged sources of chronic stress there is. But what brings most parents to therapy isn't just the exhaustion; it's the quiet loss of self that happens beneath it. The person who existed before the children arrived can feel a very long way away. I became a parent while working in finance, and later while training as a therapist. I know what it's like to hold multiple worlds at once and feel the cost in your body.
How I work. I'm an integrative psychotherapist, which means I draw on a range of evidence-based approaches rather than applying a single fixed method. Central to my practice is a body-informed, relational approach; I take the nervous system seriously. Many of the patterns that keep us stuck are not just psychological; they are held in the body, shaped by everything the body has learned to do to keep us safe. Drawing on polyvagal theory, somatic awareness, and relational depth, we work together to expand your window of tolerance, understand what drives your reactions, and build a more grounded, integrated way of being.
I also work transpersonally, which means the bigger questions of meaning, identity and purpose belong in the room alongside the practical and the immediate.
If something here has landed with you, please reach out. Most people carry something longer than they'd like, and it moves from whispering to demanding attention. Taking the first step is simple — a free 15-minute discovery call, no commitment, just a conversation. You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be ready to meet yourself at a deeper level.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualified as a psychotherapist from the Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Eduction (CCPE), I am a member of the UKCP.
The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Nervous system regulation, helping you understand anxiety and stress, what triggers these states as well has helping with identifying unique coping strategies that support and balance your system, helping your build resilience in the business modern day life
Therapies offered
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Fees
£100.00 - £120.00
