About Lauren
Lauren Scogin is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people through major life shifts. She holds a Vermont LICSW and a Maine LCSW and recently moved to the Green Mountains after practicing on the New England Seacoast. Lauren focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and career concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She listens to each person’s story and helps them name what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify next steps, build coping skills, and strengthen self-worth. Lauren believes people often carry the answers they need and helps them find those solutions. Before clinical practice she spent five years as a nursing home administrator.
That role added experience in leadership and working with elders facing health and adjustment challenges. She uses that background when supporting aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and related concerns. Lauren also supports people dealing with relationship strain, divorce and separation, parenting stress related to disruptive mood symptoms, and first responder issues.
She assists those coping with trauma, postpartum depression, and life purpose questions. Her work includes executive and professional coaching for career transitions. In sessions she uses client-centered conversations alongside emotionally-focused, narrative, mindfulness, and solution-focused tools.
The tone is nonjudgmental and practical. Lauren invites people to take the first step and offers a calm, steady presence while they make change.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and empathic reflection to help people feel understood and to uncover their own solutions; it is useful for stress, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Emotionally-focused therapy aims to identify and shift unhelpful emotional patterns in close relationships and personal reactions, which can help with grief, relationship strain, and attachment worries. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping with anxiety and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that align with what the person needs. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so the tools match the situation and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and chat or text can fit brief updates or on-the-go check-ins. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions during busy periods and to use the specific format that best supports progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English