Lauren Buroker

I have extensive experience working with children and adolescents.  I try to promote autonomy and choice in my sessions with children and adolescents as that is something which is not often to provided to young ones in my experience. I utilize various creative approaches to help them feel more comfortable addressing various topics that can help them reach their goals.  

As this is one of the most evidence based practices, I have quite a bit of experience with it. I have found that it is helpful for many people, but it does not work for everyone. I do tend to use techniques from it, but I'm not an avid CBT only practitioner.

I have always enjoyed helping people, so initially I wanted to be a teacher; however, I'm rather introverted and so one on one interactions are more comfortable for me. Once I found psychology, I was hooked, and things progressed from there!

I have found DBT to be very helpful for a variety of my clients, including those who have experienced trauma. This modality provides a multitude of concrete ways to work through whatever a person might be struggling with, which can be comforting to clients who might have difficulty with solely talk based therapy. 

The majority of my career post graduate school was via telehealth due to the pandemic - while there are obvious challenges, I have found that remote care can help people to feel more comfortable as they are in their own space and it opens up options that as a therapist I would not have considered before having to rely so heavily on technology.