Brenda Lauer , LPC

Brenda Lauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a state credential that authorizes her to provide professional counseling, and she brings more than 15 years of clinical experience to her work. She maintains a part-time schedule, typically working afternoons on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in the Eastern Time zone, and combines traditional counseling methods with training as a hypnosis coach.

Over the course of her career she has supported a wide variety of people including military members, first responders, and clients from many walks of life. Clients she has worked with have presented with diagnoses such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Her practice also addresses stress, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and other mood and adjustment concerns, and she has interest in areas like adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment challenges, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and relationship and communication difficulties.

Her counseling style is described as gentle and warm, grounded in respect, compassion, and empathy. She emphasizes viewing situations from the client's perspective and then collaborating to broaden that viewpoint so practical changes can follow. Brenda draws from multiple therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to each person, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered and humanistic approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques (CBT), emotionally-focused therapy (EFT), solution-focused strategies, trauma-focused work, mindfulness practices, and rational emotive behavioral methods. She avoids a one-size-fits-all model and prefers to learn about each individual before selecting the methods that fit best.

Brenda believes therapy can be a positive, meaningful turning point for people seeking support and growth. She encourages individuals to explore options for improving mental health and acknowledges that finding the right fit with a therapist is an important step in that process.

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