About Lauren
Lauren Petrocelli is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with eight years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and helps people coping with grief, depression, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Lauren emphasizes a straightforward, down-to-earth approach so conversations feel natural and focused.
She has a background supporting people who live with disabilities and chronic health issues, including chronic pain and illness. That experience shapes how she plans sessions and adapts strategies to fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
Lauren pays attention to practical barriers so therapy is usable in everyday life. In sessions she uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused methods. That means talking through patterns of thought, practicing short grounding exercises, and setting realistic steps for change.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented while still making space for emotions. Lauren works with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, panic, ADHD, career stress, and relationship strain. She also supports people facing cancer, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment by adjusting pace and expectations.
The focus is always on what will help someone move forward. Her style is direct but compassionate. She encourages small experiments between sessions and tracks what helps.
If someone wants clear tools for managing worry or grief, she offers an approachable, adaptable path toward better daily functioning.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Lauren uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thought patterns that increase anxiety or depression and then practice different ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for worry, panic, sleep problems, and changing habits that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing exercises. These practices can reduce reactivity to stress and help people feel steadier during overwhelming moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative planning can shift over time as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility challenges. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, medical appointments, or days when leaving home is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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