Hello! I'm Lauren, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who enjoys working with others from many different walks of life. I have been practicing since 2020 and have experience with perinatal and women's issues, couples, grief and loss, life transitions, and military lifestyle stressors.
I meet each of my clients where they are at while understanding and clarifying goals for therapy. I work from an experiential, humanistic, and relational lens while using attachment-based modalities and parts work to help clients reconnect with a true and authentic experience of themselves. Research literature consistently shows that the foremost catalysts for personal growth and change exist within the therapist-client dynamic and through corrective emotional experiences--a fancy way of saying that we change through encountering different experiences of ourselves in the context of relationships. Making sure I am the right fit is important to build rapport and trust, which will be the foundation of our work together.
In the first session, I conduct an intake to collect background information, which helps me better understand you through your experiences, relationships, childhood history, etc. I invite your questions and thoughts to help set the stage with what ails and needs attention. It is not uncommon to begin therapy focusing on one complaint only to uncover much more, and it is in these details where relief and insight lie. My goal is to uncover and understand your story while challenging parts that need it, bringing clarity to that which is confusing, and empathizing with the past that still hurts.
