Lauren Scogin, LICSW, LCSW

Lauren Scogin is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people navigate significant life transitions and emotional challenges. She is licensed in both Vermont and Maine and holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW, which indicate clinical social work licensure. After five years working as a nursing home administrator, she developed additional strengths in organizational management and leadership within healthcare settings that inform her clinical perspective.

Lauren supports clients through grief and loss, career difficulties, executive and professional coaching, and a wide range of relationship and family struggles including divorce and pregnancy loss. She has extensive experience assisting older adults and their families as they manage health-related changes, end-of-life concerns, grief, and adjustment. Her practice also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and mood-related challenges.

Working from a holistic, strengths-based viewpoint, Lauren believes clients already hold many of the answers they need to build meaningful lives. She cultivates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored and where practical coping strategies and personal goals are developed collaboratively. Taking the first step can take courage, and Lauren honors that decision while guiding clients toward clearer direction and improved coping.

Approaches that guide online therapy and care

Lauren integrates client-centered therapy, which focuses on the client’s own goals and values and emphasizes empathy and active listening to support personal growth and self-directed change. This approach is well suited for people facing life transitions, self-esteem challenges, and decisions about career or relationships.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help clients and couples identify and reorganize emotional responses that shape interaction patterns. EFT can be helpful for improving attachment, repairing relationship distress, and processing strong emotions tied to loss or betrayal.

Mindfulness therapy is another element of her work, offering practical techniques to increase present-moment awareness, reduce stress, and improve emotional regulation. These practices can support coping with anxiety, grief, and caregiver stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lauren works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Lauren is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, and geographic limitations. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care and to access a licensed professional from wherever a client is located in Vermont.