Creative, practical psychotherapy that promotes resilience
and helps you build the life you imagine
Lauren Gonzalez, MA, MFA, LMFT
Licensed in New York, California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Welcome.
This web site is the starting point from which you can learn about me and my therapy practice. My style is relational, creative, and goal-oriented, guided by extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, mindfulness, Ecotherapy and a lifetime in the creative arts. The menu above provides some information that might help you make an informed decision to start therapy.
If you have ever felt that you are different somehow from others, and feel misunderstood, unseen, and unsure how to navigate the world with your unique mindset, we could be a good fit for therapy.
I am a mindfulness practitioner who uses the insight and emotional experiencing of Schema Therapy and the tools of DBT in a blend with writing, nature consciousness, and myriad forms of creativity, especially the use of metaphor, to help make sense out of the more nuanced complexities of life. Our work together is backed by the ethos that each therapy session is a journey to approach with a sense of wonder and curiosity. I am skilled in working with adult ADHD, and can help those understand and work with neurodivergence from a unique and strengths-based perspective.
My background in the creative arts, as a writer and entertainment/culture technology journalist covering video games and Internet culture throughout the 90s and 2000s in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, combined with my lifelong love of the natural world creates the unique blend of experience and insight that I bring to our work in the therapy space. I find solace in nature, and am interested in where psychology, culture, and nature meet and affect our daily lives and relationships. I specialize in work with adult (18+) individuals, teens (13-18), college/university students, LGBTQ+, with an adjunct focus on collaborations, be it partnerships or teams in the arts, entertainment, technology, as well as medical and non-profit ventures.
I am licensed in California, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and provide online telemedicine sessions only. I work with international clients via telehealth in many countries.
Please visit my Contact page to inquire about treatment. I look forward to hearing from you.
"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." - Jane Goodall
Click the Play button on the video above to learn about my approach to mindfulness and therapy
To be great, be whole: don't exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you.
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
-Fernando Pessoa, 1933
May what I do flow from me
like a river,
no forcing
and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"The weather is the circulation system of the earth. The weather is the elimination system of the earth. The weather is the immune system of the earth. The seasons are its respiration. As blood has red and white cells, so the earth has high- and low-pressure cells. As blood has immune cells, the earth has storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes."
-excerpt from Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing our Connection With the Elements, by Nan Moss and David Corbin