About Lauren
Lauren Knepp is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and depression. She aims to make therapy practical and understandable for parents and adults worried about day-to-day life. Lauren works in Pennsylvania and brings 16 years of experience to each session.
She focuses on clear strategies for handling relationship tensions and communication problems. Lauren also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and the strain that caregiving can bring.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelming feelings and build small, manageable habits. Lauren draws on therapies that teach skills people can use between sessions. She mixes cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and acceptance-based practices to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and act in line with their values.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused work when a brief, skills-oriented plan will help. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Lauren listens for what matters most and then helps set clear, achievable goals.
Many people find this step-by-step focus useful when they are juggling family responsibilities, work stress, or health challenges. Her background includes longstanding clinical practice in Pennsylvania and a commitment to working with diverse life experiences and identities. Lauren aims to provide steady, practical support so clients can gain better coping tools and clearer direction for change.
Approach and options for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and situations where people want clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce distress. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit each person. Sessions are collaborative; adjustments are made over time based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from wherever they are, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or being on camera is an issue, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while still practicing the same therapeutic skills used in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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