Lauren Sheptock, LPCC

Lauren Sheptock is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate (LMFTC) and Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC). She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of San Diego and her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Marriage and Family Therapy emphasis from Colorado Christian University.

Lauren has her Level 2 certificate in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, is certified in Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS) for working with premarital couples, and is trained in Restoration Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Expressive Art Therapy. She also draws from Structural Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Lauren is heavily Systemic and Person-Centered, and she believes healthy relationships are fundamental to a person’s wellbeing, including having great rapport, collaboration, and trust with your counselor.

Her Christian faith is everything to Lauren, and it is the foundation from which she counsels people with both truth and grace. Her life goal is to love people well, and she aims to create a warm, welcoming, and safe space in which people are free to come as they are, experience the full range of emotions just as God intended, and work towards healing and thriving. Just as God created every individual uniquely and specifically, Lauren develops a holistic understanding of each individual so that she can best walk alongside them on their counseling journey.

As Lauren works with couples and families, she aims to highlight each member’s unique voice and provide tools and strategies to establish the best possible structure, communication, and patterns of interaction. Lauren also works with individual females seeking to rediscover their identity and worth, maintain boundaries, and thrive relationally, emotionally, and spiritually. With all clients, Lauren sits in the suffering, assists in finding purpose, provides psychoeducation and evidence-based practices, helps disrupt negative cycles, identifies strengths, and points to the hope, love, joy, and peace found in Christ.

In her free time, Lauren loves to spend time with her husband and Bernese Mountain Dog named Moose, pursue silly and deep connections with her community, spend time outside playing sports or paddleboarding, travel, read and write creatively, cook and bake, and pursue artistic hobbies such as painting, stained glass, and other crafts. Lauren is also involved in her local church and loves serving as a Youth Leader alongside her husband, the Youth Pastor.