About Lauren
Lauren Greeley is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step feel easier for anyone reaching out.
Lauren uses a practical, down-to-earth style in sessions. She listens with respect and adjusts conversations to each person’s situation. She helps people name what feels hard and pick small, doable steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns. That includes grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting challenges, sleep trouble, and career stress. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Lauren draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered talk to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when calm and regulation are goals.
She also brings experience with adoption and foster care matters, caregiver strain, multicultural and immigration-related stress, and issues tied to prejudice and discrimination. Practical topics like money worries, legal separation, and end-of-life decisions are within her scope. Lauren works through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions are arranged via a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following a person’s priorities. The therapist supports people in naming their concerns and guides conversations so solutions come from the client’s own values and goals. This approach helps when someone needs space to be heard and to set personal goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships through practical techniques for distress tolerance and emotion regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish