Lauren Garrett
Structured, skills-based care for children, teens, and young adults, with steady support for the parents standing alongside them.
Young people building skills that hold up outside the room
This work fits school-age children, teens, and young adults dealing with anxiety, constant overthinking, low confidence, or emotions that feel too big to manage. It also fits the everyday strain that shows up at this age: school stress, trouble focusing, friendship conflict, and behavior that has become hard to shift at home.
Parents are part of the picture. For families trying to understand what their child is going through and how to help, sessions make room for the adults too, so the support a child builds in therapy is reinforced at home.
Common themes in the work
- Anxiety, overthinking, and self-doubt
- Strong emotions and trouble regulating them
- School stress, focus, and behavioral challenges
- Friendships, peer pressure, and self-esteem
- Parents who want to understand and help their child
Practical, structured, and focused on real life
Sessions are collaborative and structured, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. The work balances understanding what is hard with learning how to respond differently, so a young person leaves with skills they can use: managing anxiety, steadying strong emotions, and handling the moment when it arrives.
With children and teens, the tone stays warm, clear, and credible, and the pace adjusts to the age and the person. Parents are kept appropriately involved, because progress holds better when home and therapy are moving the same direction.
Support for the child and the parents, in parallel
When a child's struggle is also weighing on the family, Lauren can work alongside another clinician so the child and the parents are each supported directly, with coordination between sessions rather than two separate efforts that never meet.