About Lauren
Lauren Knepp is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed by everyday life. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on clear steps clients can try between sessions.
She uses approaches that teach skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and changing unhelpful thinking. Sessions often include simple exercises, goal-setting, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and build calm.
Background and approach
Lauren helps people identify small changes that make daily life easier. Her background includes long experience supporting people with depression, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. She also works with issues such as attachment concerns, adoption and foster care experiences, caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, and body image.
She brings steady, practical support when situations feel confusing or out of control. In session she listens closely and collaborates on clear, doable steps. Therapy may include skill practice from cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance-based work, and solution-focused planning.
Clients leave sessions with specific tools to try during the week. Lauren practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. She aims to help people rebuild confidence, manage anxious thoughts, and improve relationships with concrete, manageable strategies.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without letting those thoughts dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps even when feelings are difficult, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and depression and includes homework like tracking thoughts and trying new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Elements of DBT that focus on distress tolerance and emotion regulation can help when stress feels overwhelming.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Lauren will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That makes therapy more useful and easier to stick with.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or long commutes.
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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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