About Lauren
Lauren Mirkin is a psychotherapist based in Maryland who focuses on stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She brings 15 years of experience to sessions and aims to help people who feel stuck, unmotivated, or overwhelmed by emotions and thoughts. Lauren’s background includes work with eating and mood concerns, and she helps clients find more balance and energy in daily life.
Her approach centers on practical steps and steady support. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and draws on clinical nutrition and health coaching to address eating and wellness when relevant.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete strategies to manage worry, improve sleep, and handle anger or life transitions. Lauren pays attention to how relationships and family history shape current problems. She helps people untangle family of origin issues, codependency, and attachment difficulties so they can make clearer choices in relationships.
Work on intimacy, commitment concerns, and body image is offered alongside coping skills for chronic pain and illness. She also supports people dealing with career stress, questions about life purpose, and midlife shifts. For those with ADHD or mood disorders, sessions focus on organizing, pacing, and practical ways to reduce overwhelm.
Lauren combines talk-based therapy with coaching techniques to help clients move from thinking to doing. Therapy with Lauren typically begins with identifying immediate goals and a simple plan. From there she adjusts tools and pacing to fit each person’s needs, helping them build routines and take small steps toward lasting change.
Practical approaches for online care and change
Lauren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, usable skills. One common approach is cognitive-behavioral style work, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different responses to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another frequent focus is mindfulness-based practice, which teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to manage stress and improve sleep.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful, try methods in-session, and adjust plans based on goals, progress, and personal preferences. That collaboration helps ensure techniques match the client’s needs and lifestyle.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face connection from wherever someone is located in Maryland or beyond, while phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use isn't ideal. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, fit therapy into a busy day, or use shorter, focused exchanges for coaching-style support. These options make it simpler to keep continuity and practice new skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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