Lauren trained as Psychologist (Educational & Developmental) in Australia and is also registered as an Educational Psychologist in the UK. Lauren is warm, approachable and passionate about building strong therapeutic relationships with young people and their families to support their developmental trajectories.
Lauren has worked a range of setting, including hospitals, child protection services, both primary and secondary schools and in private practice for over 14 years. She conducted research into childhood trauma at The University of Melbourne and taught at Australian Catholic University. She has developed and ran intensive programme for children with Selective Mutism across the UK and Australia. During her time in London, Lauren worked in Private Practice and was also Deputy Director of the Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) programme at Anna Freud Centre and University College London, as well as
teaching on postgraduate in Supervision and Child Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) programmes.
Lauren works with a range of childhood mental health difficulties including low mood, anxiety, selective mutism, emotional regulation and childhood trauma. She is experienced in working with neurodiversity and modifying interventions to meet the needs of each individual child and family. Much of Lauren’s work involves working alongside parents, helping them to support young people in their care.
Lauren carries out cognitive, educational and developmental assessments to assess a child’s academic functioning and strengths and weaknesses in areas such as verbal and non-verbal intelligence, speed of information processing and memory. Lauren is trained in a range of therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy, Person-Centred, Circle of Security and Solution Focused Therapy.
Areas of interest
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Selective Mutism
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- School/ related stress
- Chronic pain
- Emotion regulation and anger management
- Child behavioural problems
- Parenting stress
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Neurodivergence (Autism & ADHD)
- Anxiety, Depression, and emotional regulation
- Learning differences and school engagement
- Social connection and peer relationships
- Adolescent identity and life transitions
- Parent support and family systems
- Psychoeducational and diagnostic assessments
- Educational and developmental assessments for learning difficulties (e.g. Autism, Dyslexia & ADHD).
