Lauren Trecosta

Generally, my clients are dealing with trauma from one or more of the following: childhood abuse, sexual assault, or trauma associated with deployments. Unresolved trauma, regardless of what it is from, influences emotions, choices, and physiology in the present which, then, defines the capacity for happiness, expression, and fulfillment in the future. Together we invite trauma in to the space to heal and integrate for the future.

In the post-pandemic world, I find my clients are experiencing greater levels of more acute anxiety. Symptoms sometimes lead to a panic attack and a trip to the emergency room. Managing stress, resisting the influences that pull us off center or interactions that throw of us off balance are skill sets. I help people find center, stay grounded, and pursue a meaningful path.

Many of my clients have battled depression to varying extents since childhood. Sometimes a recent event, like a break-up, a loss, or an anniversary, make the feelings more acute. While understanding the roots of depression, we also work in the present to create space and a narrative for possibility. Depression, like anxiety, responds well to 'rewriting' faulty beliefs, developing self-care skills, and learning how to love yourself.

I work with clients to find a mindful balance between accepting negative thoughts and creating habits, routines, and activities that express and fulfill our goals. When we allow compassionate spaciousness for negative thoughts or emotions, we free up energy to mindfully put toward creating the life we want.

I work with clients to find a mindful balance between accepting (not agreeing with)-- or releasing the energetic tug-of-war -- with negative thoughts and applying newly found energy toward creating habits, routines, and activities to create the life we want. Allowing what is leaves energy to create what is desired.

I use ACT with my clients as a culmination of experience using different modalities. Simply put, accepting what is (not necessarily agreeing with!) leave energy to create what is desired.

I use CBT routinely to identify faulty beliefs that lead to distressing emotions. Our beliefs can be so rote and automatic, we have no idea how they impact our perceptions, emotions, and behaviors -- our present moment. Anything that impacts our present moment, by default, impacts our future. I'm an advocate for making conscious choices about who you are and what you stand for in this world.

Existential Therapy is a foundational principle in my practice. It integrates with other modalities especially spiritual ones. In the end, we are people; fully human, fully divine,, with one life. Ultimately, the question -- and every question -- comes down to who do you want to be and how do you want to show up? This is what we have control over. Through weekly session, my clients awaken to choices they didn't know they had.