Lauren Petrocelli
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lauren
Lauren Petrocelli is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She brings eight years of professional experience and focuses on creating an accessible, nonjudgmental setting. Lauren emphasizes clear goals and steady steps so clients can find relief and make meaningful changes in daily life.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and change small habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful moments. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set short-term goals and track progress with concrete strategies. Lauren has particular experience supporting people living with disabilities and those facing chronic health conditions.
She also works with concerns such as grief, low self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, burnout, and career stress. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at improving how clients feel and function week to week. In sessions, Lauren asks about what matters most to each person and then tailors simple tools to match those priorities.
She favors collaboration - clients and therapist plan the next steps together and review what’s working. Small, consistent changes are the focus rather than quick fixes. Lauren practices in New York and conducts sessions in English.
She offers a range of online session formats and uses a subscription model for scheduling and payment. Taking the first step can feel hard; Lauren aims to make that step clearer and more manageable.
Practical approaches for online therapy and daily life
Lauren uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT focuses on skills you can practice between sessions and is useful for stress, panic, sleep trouble, and low mood.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and reduce reactivity. These techniques can help when emotions feel overwhelming and when concentration is difficult.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lauren collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their needs and goals. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep care consistent during illness, travel, or changes in routine. The goal is to make therapy accessible and usable in everyday life, with straightforward techniques you can apply between meetings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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