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Lauren Nelson, MSS, LCSW

Staff Therapist, Bryn Mawr & Wynnewood Offices
610-642-2648 ext. 1

Lauren works with individuals, families, and couples, using a holistic and humanistic approach to treatment. She believes in treating people with compassion and respect. Lauren draws on each person’s strengths, which helps them manage and cope with life transitions and hardships. She creates a safe and nurturing environment where people can grow through their struggles. Viewing challenges and transitions as a natural part of relationships, Lauren assists her clients in cultivating their skills to foster healthy relationships.

Lauren builds trusting therapeutic relationships with her clients, creating a non-judgmental and a safe place to explore internal conflict, relational and intimate issues, deep seeded anger, complicated grief, trauma, and other human experiences. Anger and sadness are two very powerful emotions that are very much interrelated. Every person experiences and expresses these differently. Sometimes we repress emotions, which can cause anxiety and depression as well as communication issues in relationships. Lauren’s goal is to help clients develop healthy ways to experience and express their emotions.

She has extensive experience in working with children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples, utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, gestalt therapy, and structural family therapy. Lauren also integrates yoga, meditation, and dance/movement into her practice when appropriate.

Lauren’s experience and areas of interest include trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression, infertility, women’s issues, life transitions, grief and loss, anger, personality disorders, parenting and co-parenting issues, autism, psychosis, opposition and defiance in adolescents, eating disorders, and self-esteem issues.

Lauren is a Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker. She received her graduate degree in social services with an emphasis on clinical practice from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Workers. Lauren has trained with the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center and is also currently training with the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia. She is also training as a Yoga Instructor. Lauren has 24 years of experience in dance/movement. Lauren enjoys working with a variety of people from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds.

Lauren Nelson, MSS, LCSW can be reached in the Bryn Mawr & Wynnewood offices at 610-642-2648 ext. 1.