Lauren

— Counsellor

Available at Colwill Place (Windsor) and/or via Telehealth every Tuesday and Thursday.

Offers a 10-minute free discovery call.

Session packs are available. Learn more, here.

Lauren is a registered counsellor who has experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. Lauren completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from MacEwan University in Canada and a Master of Counselling at the University of the Sunshine Coast. 

Lauren has experience working with clients in both schools as well as individuals within the community. Lauren works empathetically and non-judgementally with each individual client’s needs to make them feel comfortable and at ease, meeting them where they are and supporting them to reach their potential.    

Lauren works with evidence-based treatments to help clients with a range of presenting difficulties such as:

- Relationship difficulties
- Parenting
- Divorce
- Struggles with self-esteem
- Difficulties with self-identity
- Anxiety
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Trauma
- Suicidal ideation/self-harm
- Bullying
- Behavioural issues/acting out
- Life changes and adjustments
- Loss and bereavement
- Pain management
- Motivation

Lauren adapts each session for the client and works with mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, arts and expressive therapies, cognitive behavioural methods, strengths-based, emotion-focused, and client-centred approaches. She is passionate about collaborating with the client, respecting the client’s autonomy and increasing self-efficacy.

 
Lauren Rooyakkers | Modern Minds
 

“I am not perfect…but I am enough”
— Carl Rogers

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” 

— Albert Ellis

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Qualifications

Level 2 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA)

Master of Counselling, University of the Sunshine Coast

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), MacEwan University                                                             

 

Services - Child & Adolescence Counsellor