About Lauren
Lauren Grassi is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Lauren aims to make sessions feel straightforward and nonjudgmental.
With 15 years of experience, Lauren draws on approaches that center the person's experience and practical problem solving. She listens for what matters most, then works with each person to set realistic steps toward change.
How Lauren works
Sessions often include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small experiments to test new ways of coping. Lauren also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction struggles, and identity questions related to LGBT concerns. She pays attention to how past relationships and family patterns show up now.
When needed, she helps people name painful experiences and build useful routines for feeling steadier day to day. People who need help with caregiver stress, body image, attachment concerns, or blended family dynamics can find concrete strategies in her work. Lauren brings patience and a focus on what someone can do between sessions to feel a bit better.
Her practice is based in New Jersey and she offers therapy in English. Lauren encourages simple goals and steady progress, helping people move from feeling stuck to making small, meaningful changes.
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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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approach and options for online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the person first, offering a listening stance that helps people feel heard and respected while they describe their struggles and goals. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, identity questions, grief, and many everyday stresses.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and coping difficulties.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try approaches together to see what helps most. That collaborative process guides whether to use more listening-focused sessions, skills-based work, or short solution-focused check-ins.
Online therapy offers several practical ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues for deeper conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option fits a schedule, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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