About Laverne
Laverne Santangelo welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with ten years of counseling experience and a practical, down-to-earth style. She aims to make conversations easy to follow and to help people take clear next steps.
Laverne draws on her own life experience and long history of helping others to shape her work. She has spent many years supporting people through addiction, mood struggles, grief, and major life changes.
How Laverne works
Her background includes inpatient substance use care and community mental health, where she learned to address complex needs and coordinate practical supports. In sessions she uses person-centered planning to build goals that matter to each person. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to support change.
Mindfulness and holistic ideas are offered when they fit a person’s needs, including breathing and gentle awareness exercises. She focuses on things like stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and addiction-related issues. Laverne also helps with relationship and family-of-origin concerns, grief, self-esteem, anger, career questions, and life purpose.
The work often combines problem-solving, skill-building, and short-term goals to make progress between sessions. Laverne offers appointments by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules through the platform.
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What Laverne works with
The areas below are the ones Laverne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Laverne Adapts Therapy to Online Care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s goals and choices. It starts by listening closely, then setting goals together and adjusting the plan as progress is made. This approach helps when someone feels unsure what they want to change or when priorities shift over time.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. In short, sessions identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of acting. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change. It uses questions and reflection to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change, which is often helpful for addictions, impulsivity, and lifestyle shifts.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about techniques are made collaboratively and can change as people make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messages help people stay connected between appointments. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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