About Lauren
Lauren Porter is a New York licensed mental health counselor who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship or parenting worries. She works with people coping with mood instability, grief, career strain, compassion fatigue, bipolar concerns, and questions about sexual orientation and identity. Her tone is warm and nonjudgmental and she meets people where they are.
Lauren uses an empathetic, client-centered way of working. She listens closely and helps clients name the problems that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Together they build practical coping skills and small, realistic steps to improve mood and reduce anxiety. Her clinical approach blends somatic ideas with cognitive and emotionally-focused work. That means attention to both body sensations and thoughts when addressing stress or trauma.
Sessions may include noticing physical reactions, trying new ways of thinking, and practicing emotional connection skills. Lauren has seven years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC. She has supported adults with both childhood and adult trauma and with addictive behaviors.
Her background includes helping people manage life changes and recover from compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a mix of video, phone, chat, or text formats to fit people’s schedules. She aims to collaborate on goals and to tailor strategies to each person’s needs.
If someone wants steady, practical support with attention to body and emotion, she offers that kind of partnership.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body reacts to stress and trauma, and invites noticing breath, tension, and physical sensations as part of healing. It can help when anxiety or traumatic memories show up as body symptoms rather than only thoughts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, offering empathic listening and collaboration so the client leads what matters most in sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaborative planning is revisited over time to adjust techniques based on what helps most.
Online formats - video, phone, live chat, or text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow visual connection for somatic noticing and emotion work, while phone or text options can feel easier on hard days. These options increase flexibility so people can keep momentum and use support in ways that match their routines and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English