(she/her)
Often rebooked
Hi there! My name is Lauren and I am a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has been in the field since 2019. Have you ever felt like asking for help or seeking counseling is a sign of weakness? I challenge you to consider the strength it takes to admit that you can’t handle something on your own and actually seek out help, so congratulations you took that first difficult step. As a counselor, I have experience working with a wide range of client identified issues including: depression, anxiety, PTSD, low self-worth, anger issues, communication issues, caregiver burnout, life transitions, and childhood trauma. I strive to help clients work through challenges and gain new insight and perspectives. I’d love the opportunity to help you work toward becoming the best version of yourself. I have experience working with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse disorders, adjustment disorders, life transitions, primary caregivers, PTSD, and childhood trauma. I have experience working with, and alongside law enforcement officers, first responders, and veterans. I provide both traditional counseling and equine assisted psychotherapy to adults 18 and older.
Our first session is about getting to know you and what brings you to therapy. I want to get to know what challenges you’ve faced and are currently facing that you would like help working through. I provide a welcoming and non-judge mental approach with the goal of creating a safe space where you feel comfortable sharing your biggest concerns with me. During this session we also discuss what you want to get out of therapy and what tools you want to learn to help you with your challenges.
Therapy is for you, and I work to build a professional relationship with my clients through which I can help you become the best version of yourself. I work on the premise that an awareness of where your challenges come from can help initiate the change you seek, and that together we can work toward that change. I focus on helping my clients to gain insight into what is preventing the change that they are seeking from becoming a possibility as well as helping to discover ways to work through those blockages.
I work with clients age 18+, individually and couples, who are working through issues related to depression, anxiety and life transitions. I seek to help clients become the best versions of themselves by building self worth, communication skills, and confidence. I work with clients who are going through transitions in life and want to start a new chapter or those who just seek to see things from a new perspective.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Thought challenging, thought stopping and other CBT techniques to assist with the therapeutic process
Compassion Focused
Provide a safe, compassionate and non-judgemental space for the therapeutic process
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Explore emotional reactions and associations with trauma and how it contributes to current issues