About Lauren
Lauren Anzelone greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW based in North Carolina with three years of experience listed. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing changes that feel overwhelming.
Lauren uses simple, practical strategies in sessions. She listens first and then helps clients set clear, achievable steps. Sessions commonly address depression, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship difficulties, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns tied to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, codependency, and parenting challenges. Other areas Lauren supports include postpartum depression, panic attacks, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue. She aims to be a steady presence while clients learn new ways to cope.
Her style combines client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods. She also draws on motivational interviewing and trauma-focused therapy when those approaches fit a person’s needs. The focus is on collaboration and small, practical changes rather than long lists of clinical jargon.
Lauren invites people who want hands-on help developing coping skills and clearer next steps. Her background includes supporting people affected by physical or emotional trauma and assisting foster parents with behavioral strategies. Prospective clients should expect a conversational, goal-oriented process that moves at a pace they can manage.
Online approaches that fit your day
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your priorities first, then shaping sessions around what matters most to you. It is useful for people who need a trusted space to talk and want guidance that follows their pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. It is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, panic, and situations that benefit from clear exercises and homework.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is brief and useful when someone feels stuck about a habit, an addiction, or a life decision.
Lauren treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She will discuss options, try methods together, and adjust plans based on what helps you meet your goals. The process is collaborative so the work fits your needs and comfort level.
Online sessions offer more flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you see nonverbal cues and work through skills in real time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can make frequent touchpoints easier and fit between work or parenting tasks. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and build progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English