Lauren Cozzolino, LPC -The Light Within Us Holistic Counseling

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Lauren Cozzolino, LPC -The Light Within Us Holistic Counseling

Holistic trauma-informed mental health counselor. Youth & families. LGBTQIA+ affirming. SSP certified

10/29/2025

✨Glimmers✨
A Polyvagal Theory informed concept and tool to help us notice cues of safety around us, especially if our nervous system has become stuck in a hyper-aroused, hyper-vigilant state in which we are constantly alert and scanning for all the danger and bad news around us.

Glimmers aren’t meant to ignore what’s hard, nor is it to minimize it or dismiss it. It’s not looking the other way. It’s to help our body find safety and homeostasis again, because we will become sick and disconnected if we stay stuck in a state of stress for too long with no breaks.

Wherever you are, whatever is going on, take time to pause and notice these little moments of safety and connection. Your nervous system will thank you for it ✨

10/14/2025

✨ Integrating chakras into counseling ✨

As a mind-body-spirit focussed counselor, I’m always trying to find ways to integrate the “non-clinical” into my clinical work ethically and professionally.

Learning about the chakra system is an incredible way to re-connect with our bodies and our spirituality, to practice mindfulness and deepen self-awareness, and to tend to our needs in the deepest ways.

It is no coincidence that most trauma survivors I work with have lower back pain (safety in the root). The chakras are a way we can explore how trauma remains in our body, even after we’ve “talked it through” in counseling.

Each chakra represents a different layer of our human experience — from safety and creativity to love, communication, and intuition. When we bring awareness to these centers, we create space for balance and healing.

In practice: sit quietly and scan your body for any discomfort, restlessness, new sensations, or signs of unmet needs. Look up chakra mantras for that area of the body and meditate on them daily for a week. See what might shift within you, or what messages for healing your body is trying to tell you. Discuss these messages your body gives you in counseling to deepen the connection to yourself.

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10/13/2025

Welcome to the new office, newly renovated and nestled inside ✨

Complex trauma informed, nervous system focussed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodiversity affirming, & mind-body-spirit healing awaits 🤲🏻

10/04/2025

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09/10/2025

Su***de is preventable.

But it takes collective effort from all of us.

It takes caring about each other. Being gentle. Being curious. Being considerate. Being kind. Being inclusive and accepting. Spreading love instead of hate.

It takes dismantling systems of oppression, laws, policies, and belief systems that cause people to feel hopeless, helpless, and alone.

It takes lifting each other up instead of tearing each other down.

It takes being willing to have uncomfortable conversations. It takes listening to each other.

It takes all of us. All of us to make a decision: Will we be the reason someone feels safe, supported, included, and loved today?

09/03/2025

The summer I learned… CPTSD edition ☀️

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08/29/2025

5 questions to get curious about the beliefs your children hold, and to prompt discussions about empathy, acceptance of self and others, authenticity, and connection. Please meet your kids’ answers with curiosity, kindness, and gratitude for their honesty 🤍

08/05/2025

One of the most devastating consequences of of the ableism that is deeply embedded into our society is the chronic messaging that neurodivergent people receive that we are wrong, broken, and not acting within the expected behavioral framework. Divorcing ourselves from this chronic “never good enough” narrative can sometimes take a lot of work in therapy.

For neurodivergent people: Now is the time stop buying into unrealistic expectations that have you constantly feeling rushed, scrambled, in your head, overthinking, masking, fearing criticism, and fueling painful shame narratives about your worthiness. You deserve to operate in peace and comfort. Please use self-accepting and self-compassionate language with yourself 🤍

For neurotypical people: You can help your neurodivergent friends, family, colleagues, and employees feel safe, loved, valid, and supported by examining if you’re unconsciously placing neurotypical bias and expectations onto them, and instead accepting that they operate differently than you and that is okay. Different is not better or worse, not right or wrong. 🤍

07/27/2025

Thank you, 617 Union Avenue 🙏🏻 Thank you to the little town of Brielle and the Brielle Chamber for welcoming me with open arms and supporting the launch of The Light Within Us. When I took a chance and left my full-time school-based counseling job to open this private practice, this office was the landing pad. This space gave me so much freedom, and allowed me to grow in new ways. And in these past two years, these walls have been home to some truly incredible healing.

I’ve met so many incredible humans here. And the launch of the new wellness center will allow for me to meet even more folks, and allow for even more transformational healing. I’m so excited for to be born, yet I feel called to take a moment for deep gratitude and appreciation for this space and the people I’ve met along the way so far.

I realize that building and styling this space was probably the beginning of Inner Sanctuary as helping people to feel safe deep in their body the minute they walk in the door was always the goal. Hearing clients walk in and take a sigh of relief upon entry was so refreshing in a very overstimulating world that has people constantly on edge. And there’s much more of that to come!

With a heart full of gratitude- thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you Brielle, thank you to this space, & thank you to my clients for following me to the next adventure. See you soon in Wall Township!

07/19/2025

Mind-body healing and nervous system regulation aren’t about endlessly analyzing what happened.

They’re about gently teaching your body:
🌀 you don’t have to brace for impact anymore
🌀 the danger has passed (as long as it truly has)
🌀 the survival response that once protected you isn’t needed anymore in the present moment

Healing happens when your body starts to feel that it’s safe to process emotions without shutting down, without panic, and without total overwhelm.

You learn to increase your window of tolerance so you can sit with the truth of what happened and how it lives in your body.
You learn to move forward, love, and feel joy again despite it.

You reclaim your life. You are safe now.
Healing is possible.

07/18/2025

Healing is coming home to yourself.

Not the self you had to become to survive.
Not the version of you shaped by fear, freeze, defenses, fighting, or fawning (Although we thank these versions of ourselves for their service to us versus shunning or shaming them).

It’s coming home to the you beneath the patterns. The one your nervous system has been protecting all along. Your essence. You that didn’t have to protect and harden.

In mind-body trauma healing, we don’t force safety—we build it.
Through breath, re-tuning our nervous system, co-regulation, and self-compassion.
We teach our body it’s safe to rest. To feel. To connect. To be seen. To engage. To be.

And slowly, gently…
We come home.

The solution is not outside of you but within you.

07/17/2025

✨ 9 Quotes That Will Change How You See Trauma ✨

Most people think trauma is just about what happened to you.
But the truth is: trauma is what your body had to do to survive what happened.

These 9 quotes come from trauma and mind-body healing experts—Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Peter Levine, Deb Dana, and more. Their work has changed my life, my understanding of trauma, and has radically transformed how I run my therapy practice.

If you’ve ever thought:
•“Why can’t I just move on?”
•“Why do I shut down or overreact?”
•“When will I trust others again?”
•“Am I broken? Will I ever feel better?”
These are for you.

💬 Let me know which quote landed the deepest.
💾 Save this for the days you forget your reactions make sense.
🔁 Share it with someone who needs to hear:
“You are not broken—you are healing.”

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