Lauren is a Registered Psychologist and Mediator. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Alberta and finished her Masters of Counselling degree at the University of Calgary. In between degrees, she co-authored a book chapter with Dr. Nancy Galambos on parent-child relationships and how they change over the lifespan. She is currently a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the College of Alberta Psychologists and the Canadian Psychological Association.

Prior to working in private practice, Lauren spent over 8 years working in the social services field with families and youth struggling with co-parenting, addiction, domestic violence, and generational trauma. She has extensive experience working with complex family dynamics and over 6 years of experience and training in the psycho-legal field.

In her therapeutic practice, Lauren has experience working with a variety of client challenges including family conflict, anxiety, attachment wounds, complex trauma, depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, etc. In addition, she has substantial therapeutic skills geared towards helping families navigate through challenges such as separation, divorce and co-parenting.

She draws on several therapeutic frameworks including attachment, narrative, interpersonal neurobiology, EMDR, and somatic interventions. In her work with younger children, Lauren uses a combination of behavioural and narrative therapy along with play in therapy. She has a strong interest in attachment wounds and developmental trauma. Lauren has training in EMDR including advanced training in Systemic-Attachment Informed EMDR therapy for parents and children. Lauren’s clinical approach is holistic, client-centered and rests on the assumption that clients are the experts in their own lives.

Lauren offers a variety of therapeutic and evaluative services specializing in separation and divorce with complex families. She provides these services for families at the direction of the Court or by way of request from parents and/or their legal counsel.

SKILLS

• Mediation

• Parenting Coordination-Arbitration

• Parent Coaching/Consult

• Practice Note 7 (Therapeutic and Evaluative Interventions)

• Family Therapy/Couples Therapy

• Individual Therapy