Lauren Mirkin, MD, LCPC

Lauren Mirkin is a licensed clinician with 15 years of experience supporting adults, adolescents, couples, and families through a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. She blends clinical training with a strengths-based, whole-person perspective to help clients move from feeling stuck or unfocused toward greater balance, motivation, and emotional well-being. As a medical doctor - MD - and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC - she brings both medical insight and psychotherapeutic expertise to the work, and she integrates nutritional and wellness perspectives informed by her training as a clinical nutritionist and health and wellness coach.

Lauren has particular expertise across the full spectrum of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, and other forms of disordered eating. She also treats depression, anxiety, ADHD, relationship and family difficulties, chronic health challenges, and mood concerns, and she supports clients facing parenting issues, career transitions, intimacy and attachment struggles, and life changes. Her additional focus areas include body image, codependency, commitment and intimacy issues, family of origin problems, isolation and loneliness, and midlife concerns.

Her clinical toolkit emphasizes evidence-based techniques with training in mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, Motivational Interviewing, self-hypnosis, and personality type work. Lauren aims to help clients discover existing strengths, foster clearer coping strategies, and cultivate more meaningful connection and purpose in daily life.