About Lauren
Lauren Stephenson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports concerns around depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her tone in sessions is encouraging and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel understood and able to take steps forward.
Lauren uses practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and strength-focused work. She prefers to follow what a person wants to address and adapts sessions to each individual’s needs.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps that fit daily life. With 16 years of experience, she has worked with people facing mood and behavior challenges, addiction concerns, self-esteem struggles, and career-related stress. Lauren also addresses family topics like communication problems, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and family of origin patterns.
Her methods include skills for coping with anger, social anxiety and phobia, and compassion fatigue. She brings motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques into sessions to help people find motivation and practical next steps. Lauren can also assist with money and financial stress, control issues, and isolation or loneliness.
The focus in her work is on collaboration and realistic change. She helps people set goals, try new strategies, and build routines that support well-being. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to the person’s pace and priorities.
How therapeutic approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior. It is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress because it gives clear strategies and exercises to try between sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress. It can help when someone struggles with anger, strong mood swings, or overwhelming stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan over time based on how things are going.
Online work can make regular sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues while meeting from another location. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter touchpoints, ongoing encouragement, or when writing out thoughts feels easier than speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility so people can keep making progress even with a packed schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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