About Lauren
Lauren Grassi is a New Jersey licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She supports people exploring sexual and gender identity and those dealing with intimacy, self-esteem, or addiction-related worries. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping someone feel heard and understood from the first visit.
She brings 15 years of practice to each session and focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space.
Background and approach
Conversations are meant to feel safe and practical. Lauren listens first, then helps set small, manageable goals that fit daily life. Lauren uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
She often draws on client-centered methods to prioritize the person's own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools can help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while motivational interviewing supports people facing ambivalence about change. Her work includes helping people cope with trauma, family of origin issues, and complicated grief.
She also supports people with concerns about body image, attachment, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Lauren is comfortable discussing alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink when those topics are relevant to a person's wellbeing. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps.
Lauren aims to help people leave sessions with something they can try between meetings. She encourages collaboration on treatment decisions and adjusts methods as needs evolve.
How therapy styles translate to online care
Lauren often uses client-centered work to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. That means the conversation focuses on the person's priorities, with the therapist reflecting and asking questions to help clarify goals and next steps.She also commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers specific exercises and small experiments to try between sessions, which can be shared and reviewed in video or text formats.
Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk about what seems most helpful and try methods that match the person's needs and preferences. If something isn't working, the plan is adjusted together rather than sticking to one method rigidly.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing notes, or brief coping prompts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit work on stress, anxiety, or relationship issues into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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