Lauren Phillips, PsyD(She/Her/Hers)

Dr. Lauren Phillips (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist. She offers short-term and long-term psychotherapy to individuals throughout the lifespan, ranging from pre-teens, teens, adults, and seniors, as well as families, couples, and partnerships. She focuses with clients on social and emotional distress; anxiety; depression; grief and loss; addiction and substance use recovery; developmental trauma; identity exploration; interpersonal difficulties; and women’s health. With particular interest in who each client is as a person beyond their clinical presentation, Dr. Phillips applies expertise to healing codependency and relational wounds.

Dr. Phillips approaches therapy with curiosity, encouragement, sincerity, and warmth to foster trusting relationships with clients in which they feel empowered and self-assured. She builds from a psychodynamic framework. To best meet each client’s unique needs, she integrates theory and interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (a psycho-physiological, attachment-based approach), Humanistic Psychology, and cognitive and behavioral models.

Dr. Phillips provides a judgment-free place for her clients to embrace the courage required to engage in psychotherapy. She holds space for clients’ most challenging moments and obstacles, as well as their joyous occasions and accomplishments of all sizes. She sees coping skills as seeds of transformation and focuses on the change that blooms once coping skills have sprouted. With a strong rapport, she collaborates with clients to explore in depth the internal conflicts, past wounds, boundaries with oneself and others, and values at various intersections of identity, that underlie their current distress. The process of arriving at these new insights provides clients with an improved self-efficacy for having gained a greater self-knowledge, which in turn builds self-confidence and a true self-trust to confront new challenges within the self and in the world.

Dr. Phillips studied the impact of narcissism on breakup strategies for her doctoral dissertation, and the physiological effects of anxiety for her bachelor's thesis.