About Audrey Laurens, MSW-LCSW
Audrey Laurens graduated from Texas Christian University (BSW) and Florida State University (MSW) and is credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. With over 20 years of clinical experience, she has dedicated her career to helping individuals navigate complex challenges, discover strengths, and build healthier ways of coping and navigating life's challenges.
Audrey's work has spanned a variety of settings, including schools, mental health centers, addiction and acute psychiatric treatment facilities, private practice, and community-based crisis intervention through mobile crisis and ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) teams. She has also served as a crisis counselor and medical provider on medical mission trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Togo, Ethiopia, and Zambia- experiences that broadened her lens and deepened her appreciation for cultural diversity in the healing process.
Her therapeutic style is holistic, integrative, and person-centered. She is nationally certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and expressive arts approaches. This blend allows her to tailor therapy to each client's unique needs, combining structure with creativity.
Audrey specializes in supporting adults and teens experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship challenges, substance use, ADHD, and major life stressors. She has extensive experience working with clients struggling with self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and risky behaviors, as well as those seeking to break long-standing cycles of pain or avoidance.
In addition to evidence-based approaches, Audrey often incorporates mindfulness, meditation, and expressive modalities such as art therapy and sand tray therapy. She participated in a Medical University of South Carolina clinical trial on mindfulness-based relapse preventions for adult women with PTSD and substance use disorders and continues to integrate mindfulness into her practice today.
Above all, Audrey's approach is caring, supportive, and nonjudgmental. She values honesty and directness, balanced with compassion and humor. She believes that therapy is not about following a rigid formula, but about meeting clients where they are and walking alongside them as they uncover insight, resilience, and new possibilities.
Audrey's work has spanned a variety of settings, including schools, mental health centers, addiction and acute psychiatric treatment facilities, private practice, and community-based crisis intervention through mobile crisis and ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) teams. She has also served as a crisis counselor and medical provider on medical mission trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Togo, Ethiopia, and Zambia- experiences that broadened her lens and deepened her appreciation for cultural diversity in the healing process.
Her therapeutic style is holistic, integrative, and person-centered. She is nationally certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and expressive arts approaches. This blend allows her to tailor therapy to each client's unique needs, combining structure with creativity.
Audrey specializes in supporting adults and teens experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship challenges, substance use, ADHD, and major life stressors. She has extensive experience working with clients struggling with self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and risky behaviors, as well as those seeking to break long-standing cycles of pain or avoidance.
In addition to evidence-based approaches, Audrey often incorporates mindfulness, meditation, and expressive modalities such as art therapy and sand tray therapy. She participated in a Medical University of South Carolina clinical trial on mindfulness-based relapse preventions for adult women with PTSD and substance use disorders and continues to integrate mindfulness into her practice today.
Above all, Audrey's approach is caring, supportive, and nonjudgmental. She values honesty and directness, balanced with compassion and humor. She believes that therapy is not about following a rigid formula, but about meeting clients where they are and walking alongside them as they uncover insight, resilience, and new possibilities.