About this episode

Lauren Auer discusses her journey and insights as a trauma therapist.

Lauren Auer is a Trauma Therapist who has built a community of nearly 200,000 followers by sharing what she's learned from seeing trauma from every possible angle. Lauren's path into trauma work was unintentional. What started as a graduate school internship at an agency working with both juvenile offenders and abuse victims turned into a career-defining passion. She discovered she loved the complexity of seeing trauma from multiple perspectives - working with victims, offenders, and their families gave her a unique understanding of how trauma ripples through every layer of experience. From there, Lauren worked at a women's domestic violence shelter and eventually became director of a rape crisis center, where she provided therapy to people of all ages while also training police and medical staff. She's been in emergency rooms doing immediate crisis intervention and in therapy rooms with people processing childhood trauma decades later. This breadth of experience - from the immediate aftermath of trauma to long-term healing - shaped her understanding that trauma isn't one-size-fits-all. Lauren is trained in EMDR, certified in Brainspotting, and holds certifications in Somatic…

People in this episode

Host: Christina P. Kantzavelos

Guest: Lauren Auer

Topics covered

• trauma therapy
• mental health
• healing
• domestic violence
• crisis intervention

Keywords

• trauma
• therapy
• mental health
• healing
• crisis intervention
• domestic violence
• EMDR
• Brainspotting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Trauma Healing, Compassion Fatigue

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