About Lauren
Lauren Knepp is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with 16 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what matters most to them. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Lauren helps clients facing low self-esteem, isolation, and life transitions. She offers support for communication problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and the challenges that come with adoption or foster care.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses attachment worries, body image, and coping after disruptive events. In sessions she uses a mix of techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused work.
That combination lets her tailor sessions to the situation - sometimes teaching new thinking patterns, sometimes building moment-to-moment coping skills, sometimes setting small goals that stack into bigger change. Lauren aims to help people notice what gets in the way of the life they want, then practice different ways of responding. Conversations are collaborative and goal-oriented so progress is visible and practical.
She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that fits each person. Her practice serves adults in Pennsylvania and sessions are offered in English. Lauren’s background and tools are focused on helping individuals find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better ways to handle relationship and life stress.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Lauren blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to tackle both thoughts and values. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful ones, which is helpful for anxiety and depression. ACT focuses on what matters most to the person, encouraging actions aligned with values even when hard feelings remain.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style techniques teach breathing, grounding, and communication strategies that can reduce overwhelm in high-stress moments. Together these approaches give practical tools for daily life while also addressing longer-term goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy in Lauren’s practice uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to keep practicing skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English