About Lauren
Lauren Daoust is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, steady presence and practical support to people who are coping with loss, hard life changes, relationship strain, or ongoing health and caregiving stress. Lauren keeps things straightforward and gentle in the first meeting so people can feel heard right away.
She draws on six years as a therapist plus many years before that in hospice and hospital social work.
Background and approach
That background shaped how she notices emotional and physical change and responds with clear, practical suggestions. Sessions often include breathing and mindfulness practices, looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, and working toward values-based goals. Lauren uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, and attachment-focused ideas to help clients untangle difficult feelings.
She also offers person-centered listening so each plan fits the person in front of her. Work tends to be collaborative and paced to what someone can handle right now. Common concerns she addresses include depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image or self-esteem struggles, and life purpose questions. Lauren practices in Wisconsin and speaks English. New conversations begin with a relaxed first session to map goals and decide next steps together.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match what matters to them. Online sessions can include exercises to clarify values and set small, workable goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. In remote sessions clients may practice new skills, review thought records, and try behavioral experiments between meetings.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that fit their goals, mood, and daily life. Treatment is paced to what someone can manage, and methods can shift as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections or homework between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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