Lauren Urban, LCSW

she | they

therapy | practice coaching | case consultation

I’m Lauren Urban, LCSW (she/they) – a psychotherapist practicing at the intersection of psychology and ceremony with individuals, couples and groups in person in Ridgewood, Queens or virtually throughout New York State. I describe the work that I do as helping folks become the internal parent to themselves that they’ve always needed. My absolute pleasure as a practitioner is to help the therapy seeker find exploration, self-knowledge, expansion, authenticity, autonomy, spaciousness and ease.

My practice is an mix of insight-oriented talk therapy, mindfulness-based self-compassion, Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) combined with esoteric tools for self-reflection and insight, analysis and intuition, warmth and connection, and encouragement of community to facilitate and support the process of making lasting change. In the coming months, I will be completing my certification in hypnotherapy, which is another tool that I’ll incorporate in my work.

I work with individual adults experiencing depression, anxiety, ADHD and relationship difficulties. I work with individual adults and couples who experience challenges with emotional regulation, are Highly Sensitive People, are experiencing difficult adjustments to changing life situations and relationship difficulties, are exploring CNM/poly relationships or are exploring their gender or sexual identity. I am a trans, poly, kink, LGBTQIA+ and sexwork-affirming therapist. I’m most energized by working with folks who are interested in art, myth, tarot, the occult, music and other creative practices. I love dipping into ceremony, spirituality and metaphysics to help guide folks to insight. I deeply enjoy the opportunity to guide motivated people to feel more in control of their relationship to alcohol and substances and I am honored to support folks who are in the process of dismantling the influence of and healing from religious trauma.

My practice is an anti-oppressive, identity-affirming space. I am aware of the systems we exist within that oppress some and elevate others, and I am aware of my place and my privilege within those systems as a queer white femme. I believe it is incumbent upon me to engage in liberatory practice and strive to be in right relationship with the communities with which I interact on a daily basis. I continue to attend training and seek learning and mentorship in order to dismantle these systems within myself and be an anti-racist, anti-oppressive practitioner. My personal goals for the work that I do are to help therapy seekers increase their overall feelings of agency and competency, to teach to better manage resultant stress and to help my patients to develop or increase effective coping skills to navigate and survive the oppressive systems we live within.

When I am not working at my private practice or co-managing Get Right Wellness, the wellness space I co-founded in Ridgewood, you can find me puttering around with my overabundance of plants, pulling tarot cards or playing with my crystals, at the beach or on a hike somewhere, going on long walks around the neighborhood taking photos, goofing around with my kiddo, cooking something delicious or making something random with my hoard of arts and crafts supplies.