About Lauren
Lauren Knepp is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical tools to help people feel steadier day to day. Lauren focuses on clear, doable steps rather than jargon.
Sessions often include skills for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and building self-esteem. She uses mindfulness and behavioral strategies to make small changes that add up.
How Lauren works
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including family-related stress, caregiver strain, adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment worries, chronic illness or pain, body image, and coping after disasters. Lauren also supports people facing interpersonal challenges such as codependency, control issues, and communication problems.
Lauren draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She blends these methods to match what the person needs in the moment and what fits their goals. Based in Pennsylvania, she brings practical experience and an emphasis on teaching skills clients can use between sessions.
The work is collaborative - she helps people set clear priorities and build routines that support long-term wellbeing.
Lauren lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life transitions make choices feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different strategies to see what fits best. Together they set priorities and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t desired. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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