Beata Lazaro, M.A., LPC
Beata is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Pennsylvania. She has worked with clients in community-based mental health/outpatient agency, school-based, and private practice settings. Beata is experienced in treating a range of presenting symptoms and needs, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, attentional difficulties, interpersonal dynamics, self-concept, phase of life, grief, and trauma. She uses various treatment modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as mindfulness-based approaches and somatic therapies.
Beata graduated from Kutztown University with a Master of Arts degree in Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling in 2011. She has facilitated individual, group, as well couples, marital and family counseling. Beata has worked with children, adolescents, teenagers and adult populations, across her 11 years of experience in community-based mental health and outpatient settings.
Beata strives to maintain a best-practices, strengths-based, collaborative and process-oriented approach. She aims to meet clients at their respective point of readiness and motivation in their journey. Beata encourages clients to take the lead in navigating the therapeutic terrain, while providing a dynamic space for clients to actualize their inner resources. Where clinically appropriate, she also finds humor can be a helpful tool in destigmatizing and normalizing a client’s experience, making otherwise uncomfortable or distressing life experiences more approachable.
Beata finds that a key goal in the therapeutic process is to help clients to identify and replace ineffective, distorted or hindering belief systems which may be blocking their self-actualization. Utilizing a growth mindset, she seeks to help clients integrate more adaptive, congruent beliefs, thought and behavior patterns, in order to promote increased self-efficacy and quality of life. Beata appreciates helping clients explore and rewrite self-narratives that may no longer be effective, with a more empowered narrative.