Counseling, Therapy, & Consulting Services in Fort Worth, TX

Individual Counseling

Individual counseling sessions offer a confidential and personalized approach to support your mental and emotional well being. We provide a safe space for you to explore your thoughts, feelings and challenges in therapy.

Couples Counseling

During couples counseling sessions, the focus is on fostering effective communication, resolving conflicts, and deepening understanding between partners. Our goal is to empower couples with the skills and insights needed to navigate the complexities of relationships and build a foundation for long-lasting connection and mutual growth.

Parent Coaching

Our parent coaching services are designed to provide valuable support and guidance for parents facing the diverse challenges raising children. We offer personalized sessions aimed at empowering parents with effective strategies and insights to enhance their parenting skills and create a positive family environment.

Specialties

Anxiety

As a clinician trained in helping individuals with anxiety, Lauren has extensive experience in identifying root causes and teaching valuable coping skills.

According to the APA, 44 million Americans are diagnosed with mental illness. This includes people who are suffering with anxiety, as seen by 85% of adults reporting an increase since 2020 (APA Healthy Minds report). As a clinician trained in helping individuals with anxiety, Lauren has extensive experience in identifying root causes and teaching valuable coping skills. If you are experiencing new episodes of anxiety or have treated anxiety for several years, Lauren is able to provide relief through her knowledge and skill set.

Addiction

Lauren has done counseling in Fort Worth for many years, much of which has included treatment for those suffering from addiction and family members effected by addiction.

Addiction effects individuals and families we all know and love everyday. More than 14 million people in the U.S. have alcohol use disorder (AUD). Fewer then 10% with alcohol use disorder receive any form of treatment. (APA 2023)
Lauren has done counseling in Fort Worth for many years, much of which has included treatment for those suffering from addiction and family members effected by addiction.

Adolescents

Throughout her clinical career, Lauren has been working with teens and helping them through these types of struggles.

Adolescence is one of the most important developmental stages of life. It also happens to be one of the most stressful times of a persons life. According to the APA (2022), 50% of mental illness will onset by age 14 and increases to 75% by age 24. If you are seeing your teenager going through depression, anxiety, or other life intrusive emotional issues, it may be time to get them connected into therapy. Throughout her clinical career, Lauren has been working with teens and helping them through these types of struggles.

EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapy helps to connect what we feel to what we know and allows an individual to reprocess something that is distressing in order for healing to occur.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was created by Francine Shapiro, PhD. It is an accepted evidenced based practice for treating PTSD and other life events that have resulted in emotional distress. EMDR helps to connect what we feel to what we know and allows an individual to reprocess something that is distressing in order for healing to occur.
Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model - EMDR International Association (emdria.org )
Phase 1: History taking
Phase 2: Preparation-Resources
Phase 3: Assessment-what will be worked on
Phase 4: Desensitization-decreasing distress
Phase 5: Installation-installing the new positive cognition
Phase 6: Body Scan-release of somatic symptoms associated with the target
Phase 7: Closure
Phase 8: Reevaluate