About Lauren
Dr. Lauren Serdencuk practices as a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a practical, goal-oriented style to sessions.
Her work focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and other life changes. Dr. Serdencuk uses straightforward methods that aim for clear steps forward.
She draws on client-centered work to ground conversations around each person's needs. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and shift daily habits.
How Lauren works
Mindfulness and narrative tools support increased self-awareness and alternative ways to tell difficult stories. Her background includes graduate training in marriage and family therapy and doctoral study relevant to clinical practice. That training informs a blend of solution-focused and evidence-informed practices.
Sessions emphasize practical skills, coping strategies, and realistic goals that fit into everyday life. People come for help with a wide range of concerns such as mood disorders, trauma and abuse, intimacy and sexual issues, sleep problems, and ADHD-related struggles. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness challenges, first responder strain, and substance use concerns in individual work.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness for change. Dr. Serdencuk helps set achievable steps, track progress, and adjust plans when needed.
She aims to make therapy useful and accessible for people juggling busy lives.
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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.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and meeting them where they are. In online sessions this means conversations are shaped by the client's goals and pace, with the therapist listening and reflecting to help clarify priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aims to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that reinforce distress. Online CBT often uses concrete exercises between sessions such as thought records, behavioral experiments, and small practice tasks that fit into daily routines.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce rumination and increase present-moment awareness. These practices can be guided briefly during a video call or adapted into short daily checkpoints over text or audio.
Choosing the best approach happens together. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is tracked. This helps ensure therapy feels relevant and workable for each person.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or fit brief exchanges into a busy day. These options help therapy fit around work, family, and other commitments while maintaining consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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