About Lauren
Lauren Peffer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 23 years of clinical experience to her practice in New York. She offers a calm, steady presence and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Lauren helps people name their struggles and take small, practical steps forward.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals like improving communication, building coping skills, and setting boundaries. She emphasizes respect and sensitivity while tailoring work to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Lauren uses several practical approaches to guide the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing emotions and improving relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be used when past trauma is getting in the way of day-to-day life. Over more than two decades she has helped people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma, and relationship concerns. She also addresses parenting strain, intimacy issues, eating concerns, and feeling stuck or isolated.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, infidelity, and forgiveness. Lauren takes a collaborative approach. She works with each person to find what feels most useful and doable.
Her aim is to help people feel more confident in handling life’s challenges and to support steady, realistic change.
How Lauren’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and guides work toward what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns in daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays practical and relevant. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, flexible support between appointments or for people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and let people choose the way that best fits their routines and needs.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English