Lauren Mirkin, MD, LCPC helps people who feel stuck, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by relationships and life changes.
01About Lauren
Lauren Mirkin, MD, LCPC helps people who feel stuck, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by relationships and life changes. She works with adults who struggle with eating and body image, mood concerns, distraction or ADHD, and the stress that comes from parenting, career demands, or major transitions. The tone in sessions is practical and straightforward.
Conversations focus on what is getting in the way and what can change next. Lauren uses a whole-person perspective that connects thoughts, habits, and daily routines.
Background and approach
She brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on tools that support coping, mood regulation, and clearer thinking. Expect a mix of skill-building, planning, and talk to understand patterns that repeat. Her work often addresses eating and food-related issues across a broad range of presentations, as well as body image and codependency.
She also helps people facing chronic illness, pain, or disability to manage day-to-day strain and preserve quality of life. Conversations include practical steps for sleep, stress, and energy management. Relationship and intimacy concerns are approached by identifying interaction patterns and teaching communication techniques people can use right away.
Parenting and family-of-origin topics are explored with an eye toward changing behaviors and boundaries rather than assigning blame. Sessions are offered by a clinician based in Maryland and conducted in English. Lauren aims to help clients build skills they can use outside of therapy, with clear, manageable goals and regular check-ins on progress.
02Credentials
- LCPC (Maryland)
- License LC5610 · expires January 2028
- NPI
- 1609085877 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lauren lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Women's issues
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04Online support
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Lauren uses evidence-based techniques such as cognitive-behavioral strategies to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT-style work typically includes setting small experiments, learning to spot thinking patterns, and practicing new responses for anxiety, depression, or eating-related struggles.She also incorporates mindfulness-based skills to help with emotional regulation and attention. These practices teach simple exercises for grounding, managing intense feelings, and improving sleep or focus in daily life.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals and comfort level, and will adjust methods over time as progress is tracked together.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants a focused check-in. Chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, homework review, or coaching-style exchanges between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, eating and body image concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, sleep problems, anger, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style?
The work is practical and collaborative, focusing on skill-building, clearer thinking, and behavior change. Sessions mix discussion, goal-setting, and strategies you can use between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with mood disorders, eating-related concerns, relationship problems, and chronic health challenges.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds MD and LCPC credentials and practices from Maryland.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to start?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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