About Lauren
Dr. Lauren Serdencuk is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress and anxiety and helps people facing addiction, depression, grief, and relationship struggles.
Lauren favors clear, forward-looking work in sessions. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Mindfulness exercises and motivational conversations are part of what she offers to build small, steady change.
Background and approach
Her background includes graduate and doctoral study in psychology and marriage and family therapy, and long experience working with people who have chronic illness and substance use concerns. That mix of training and practice shapes a straightforward style that aims for immediate usefulness in everyday life. In a typical session Lauren asks what matters most right now and what has helped before.
She then works with clients to set short-term steps and practical experiments to try between meetings. Over time this helps people gain more control over moods, sleep, and stress responses. People who reach out can expect a collaborative approach that balances empathy with concrete tools.
She also draws on narrative techniques to help clients make sense of painful experiences and find new ways forward.
Using evidence-based approaches in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's goals and priorities, so the therapist follows what matters most and reflects back what she hears to help people clarify choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing exercises people can use to calm stress and stay present during difficult moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and goals. Sessions may combine listening, practical skill-building, short experiments to try between meetings, and narrative work to reframe difficult experiences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging let people check in or work through thoughts when writing feels easier. These options help people keep steady progress without major schedule disruptions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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