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.
Meet Dr. Lauren Phillips
Education & Training
Dr. Phillips earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brandeis University, where she completed a senior thesis in health psychology on the biological effects of psychosocial stress and appraisal of trait anxiety.
She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she focused on and taught psychodynamic theory and applied it to studying narcissism and romantic breakups for her doctoral dissertation.
She completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship internship at Astor Services in the Bronx, where she provided individual, group, and family therapy and case management for youth and families in both outpatient and intensive day-treatment programs. Her training also includes work in outpatient settings for high-functioning individuals across the lifespan, inpatient hospitals, residential programs for adolescents, and community clinics serving adults recently released from incarceration.