approach

evidence-based personalized care

A Practical, Collaborative Approach

Lauren’s goal is to make therapy both supportive and actionable. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where you can feel heard, while also focusing on concrete tools you can use in everyday life. Drawing from several evidence-based approaches, including CBT, DBT-informed skills, family systems, and attachment-based work, Lauren tailors each session to your specific needs, preferences, and goals. Together, you’ll gain insight into what’s keeping you stuck and develop practical strategies to help you feel more grounded, connected, and in control.

cognitive behavioral therapy (cBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that focuses on the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. CBT helps you understand the patterns that keep you feeling stuck, then teaches practical strategies to shift those patterns in a way that supports real change. It’s widely used for concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, and life transitions, and it can be especially helpful when you want tools you can apply in everyday life.

In CBT, you’ll learn to recognize what’s driving your emotional responses, build more balanced thinking, and practice coping skills that move you toward your goals.

In CBT, you’ll:

  • Identify unhelpful thought patterns (like overthinking, catastrophizing, or all-or-nothing thinking)

  • Challenge negative beliefs and replace them with more realistic, balanced perspectives

  • Build emotional regulation skills to manage anxiety, stress, and mood shifts more effectively

  • Practice new behaviors that support your goals, confidence, and daily functioning

  • Strengthen coping strategies you can use in real time at home, work, school, and in relationships

dBT-Informed skills

DBT-informed therapy (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) offers practical, evidence-based tools to help you manage big emotions, reduce overwhelm, and respond to stress in healthier ways. Lauren incorporates DBT-based skills to support clients who feel stuck in cycles of emotional reactivity, anxiety, shutdown, conflict, or burnout, especially when emotions escalate quickly or feel hard to control.

DBT skills focus on both acceptance and change: validating what you’re feeling while building strategies that help you stay grounded, communicate effectively, and move through difficult moments without making things worse.

Lauren may incorporate DBT-informed skills to help you:

  • Manage intense emotions using emotional regulation tools that reduce reactivity and improve stability

  • Tolerate distress and get through difficult moments without impulsive behaviors, avoidance, or shutdown

  • Strengthen coping skills for anxiety, overwhelm, and high-stress situations using practical step-by-step strategies

  • Improve relationships and communication through boundary-setting, conflict resolution, and interpersonal effectiveness skills

  • Practice mindfulness and stay present to reduce rumination, increase awareness, and build calm in the moment

family & systems lens

Lauren offers family-centered, systems-based support that looks beyond the individual and considers the relationships and environments shaping daily life (family, school, work, and community). This approach is especially helpful when stress, anxiety, behavior challenges, or conflict are influenced by ongoing patterns within the home or larger systems.

Family and systems-based work focuses on strengthening relationships, improving communication, and creating practical changes that support healthier functioning for everyone involved.

This may include support with:

  • Understanding family roles and patterns that impact communication, behavior, and emotional wellbeing

  • Exploring how past dynamics show up in current relationships, including triggers, attachment patterns, and learned coping strategies

  • Building healthier communication skills that reduce conflict and support connection (even in high-stress moments)

  • Strengthening boundaries and expectations to improve respect, consistency, and emotional safety within the family system

  • Coordinating supports across systems (home, school, work, and community) to create a clearer, more effective plan for success

eclectic & attachment-informed

Lauren uses an eclectic, attachment-informed approach, blending evidence-based methods to match each client’s needs. She integrates CBT, DBT-informed coping skills, family systems work, and psychodynamic insights to support meaningful, lasting change.

For couples, Lauren draws from attachment theory and Gottman-informed strategies to improve communication, reduce conflict, and strengthen connection creating a therapy experience that feels safe, collaborative, and genuinely helpful.

In this approach, Lauren may help clients and couples to:

  • Understand attachment styles and how early experiences shape current relationships and emotional needs

  • Identify conflict cycles (protect/attack/withdraw patterns) and learn how to interrupt them with healthier responses

  • Build practical coping strategies using CBT and DBT-informed tools for emotional regulation, anxiety, and stress management

  • Explore deeper patterns through psychodynamic insight to increase self-awareness, healing, and long-term growth

  • Improve communication and connection by practicing new ways to express needs, set boundaries, and respond with empathy