Lauren Dicair, LCSW

Lauren Dicair is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping adults navigate stress, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She offers a warm, direct style and focuses on practical conversation that helps people notice patterns in their thoughts and behavior. Lauren supports those facing grief, depression, anxiety, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues that come with aging and geriatric concerns.

Her sessions aim to make sense of what feels overwhelming. She listens for repeating habits and unhelpful thinking. Then she helps clients try small shifts that can ease day-to-day pressure and restore a clearer sense of purpose.

Lauren blends several approaches in therapy, using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to tackle upsetting thoughts and behaviors and Narrative Therapy to help people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. She incorporates Mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity and Motivational Interviewing to support change when clients feel stuck.

Her background includes long practice with people adjusting to medical diagnoses, caregiving roles, immigration and acculturation stress, and the emotional work of midlife and life transitions. She draws on that experience to help clients find practical coping tools and realistic next steps.

Sessions are collaborative and interactive. Lauren focuses on clear goals and everyday strategies that can be used between meetings. She encourages people to notice what works for them and to make adjustments as needed.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Lauren commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down upsetting thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts and teaches concrete skills for mood and sleep problems. She also uses Existential Therapy to help people facing big life questions and meaning shifts, useful for midlife crises or grief. Mindfulness Therapy is part of her toolbox and offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and ease stress.

Finding the right approach is a gradual, collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions include discussion and small exercises to try between meetings, and plans are adjusted based on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow check-ins that match a work break or caregiving routine. It can also make sessions less disruptive when people need a shorter update rather than a full in-person visit.