About Lauren
Lauren Stephenson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She keeps sessions practical and straightforward so parents can get clear tools fast. Lauren aims to help clients build better coping skills and improve day-to-day life.
She uses approaches that focus on thinking patterns, skills practice, and small achievable changes. Sessions are collaborative - clients set the priorities and Lauren helps shape steps that fit their life.
Background and approach
She pays attention to family dynamics, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and issues that affect self-esteem. Lauren often works on communication problems, blended family challenges, and matters tied to adoption and foster care. She also helps with anger, career stress, financial worries, loneliness, and mood disorders.
Young adults and women’s issues are included among her focus areas. Her style is supportive and encouraging. She meets people where they are and follows their lead about what to work on.
Therapy sessions mix practical strategies with a strengths-based perspective so progress can happen between meetings. Based in North Carolina, Lauren combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas with solution-focused and motivational approaches. Her goal is to help people choose concrete steps toward the life they want.
She invites straightforward conversation and steady problem-solving to make change feel manageable.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Lauren commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what matters most to them and build motivation for change, which is useful for addictions, career shifts, or parenting goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as progress or obstacles appear. Clients help set priorities so sessions stay practical and focused on what they want to change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick updates, coaching-style support, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English