About Lauren
Lauren Anzelone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma. She also supports those coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, addiction, and self-esteem struggles.
Lauren practices in a straightforward, strengths-based way. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with tools tailored to everyday life.
She draws on approaches that emphasize the person's own resources alongside structured techniques.
How Lauren works
Her background includes social work training and time supporting people with developmental and behavioral challenges. Lauren has experience working with adoption and foster care concerns and supporting parents and foster parents facing difficult behaviors. She has also helped people affected by physical injury, emotional abuse, and other traumatic events.
Lauren uses evidence-informed methods to address mood disorders, panic, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress. She helps people learn new coping skills, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and break cycles of codependency or problematic behavior. Motivational strategies are used when change feels overwhelming.
Sessions often focus on practical steps: communication strategies, behavioral techniques, and short-term goal setting. Lauren emphasizes collaboration, pacing care to what each person can handle. She brings three years of post-licensure practice to this work and offers services in English in North Carolina.
Lauren lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Lauren works with
The areas below are the ones Lauren selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and guides the work from their priorities rather than imposing solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, panic, mood problems, and stress. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change by exploring ambivalence and building their own reasons to move forward.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that fit the person's goals and preferences. Together they try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, share progress, or have shorter check-ins that fit a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use techniques in real life situations.
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