Audrey Laurens MSW-LCSW
Child, Adolescent, & Family Therapist
Audrey Laurens graduated from Texas Christian University (BSW) and Florida State University (MSW) and is credentialed as Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is dedicated to using her education, skills, and extensive clinical experience to help children, adolescents, teens, and their families to manage unique situations and identify healthy solutions.
Audrey has always had a heart for children but truly discovered her passion while providing trauma focused therapy to children placed in child protection custody. For the past 15 years, she has provided therapy to children, teens, and adults in a variety of settings including schools, mental health centers, addiction and acute psychiatric treatment facilities, private practice, and in the community as part of a mobile crisis unit and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team.
Audrey is the mother of three boys, one of which was adopted from Ethiopia, which gives her unique experience in issues surrounding adoption and blended families. She has served as a crisis counselor and medical provider on medical mission trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Togo, Ethiopia, and Zambia. These experiences have afforded her the opportunity to broaden the scope of her therapeutic lens. The result is a therapeutic approach which is caring, supportive, non-judgmental, holistic, strengths-based, and honors both the culture diversity and individual uniqueness of the children and families she works with.
Audrey specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and teenagers exposed to trauma such as child physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, exposure to violence in the home/school/community, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, substance use, and behavior and adjustment issues. She has extensive experience working with adolescents engaging in risky activities such as substance use, risky sexual behaviors, and self-harm.
Audrey is nationally certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and provides other evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Child Traumatic Grief Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Family Systems Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. In her therapeutic work with children and adolescents, she incorporates expressive therapies such as Play Therapy, Sand Therapy and Art Therapy to further engage children and teens in the exploration of their feelings and experiences. She most recently participated in an MUSC clinical trial study on the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors for patients experiencing both PTSD and Substance Use Disorders. She continues to use the benefits of mindfulness and meditation practice in her clinical work with her patients.
Audrey seeks the opportunity to help children better understand themselves and their behaviors. She believes helping children, teens, and parents to better understand each other is imperative to enhancing relationships at home and decreasing the display of problematic behaviors. She offers support, encouragement, and clarity as her clients navigate through difficult experiences and uncertain times.
Audrey has always had a heart for children but truly discovered her passion while providing trauma focused therapy to children placed in child protection custody. For the past 15 years, she has provided therapy to children, teens, and adults in a variety of settings including schools, mental health centers, addiction and acute psychiatric treatment facilities, private practice, and in the community as part of a mobile crisis unit and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team.
Audrey is the mother of three boys, one of which was adopted from Ethiopia, which gives her unique experience in issues surrounding adoption and blended families. She has served as a crisis counselor and medical provider on medical mission trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Togo, Ethiopia, and Zambia. These experiences have afforded her the opportunity to broaden the scope of her therapeutic lens. The result is a therapeutic approach which is caring, supportive, non-judgmental, holistic, strengths-based, and honors both the culture diversity and individual uniqueness of the children and families she works with.
Audrey specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and teenagers exposed to trauma such as child physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, exposure to violence in the home/school/community, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, substance use, and behavior and adjustment issues. She has extensive experience working with adolescents engaging in risky activities such as substance use, risky sexual behaviors, and self-harm.
Audrey is nationally certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and provides other evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Child Traumatic Grief Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Family Systems Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. In her therapeutic work with children and adolescents, she incorporates expressive therapies such as Play Therapy, Sand Therapy and Art Therapy to further engage children and teens in the exploration of their feelings and experiences. She most recently participated in an MUSC clinical trial study on the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors for patients experiencing both PTSD and Substance Use Disorders. She continues to use the benefits of mindfulness and meditation practice in her clinical work with her patients.
Audrey seeks the opportunity to help children better understand themselves and their behaviors. She believes helping children, teens, and parents to better understand each other is imperative to enhancing relationships at home and decreasing the display of problematic behaviors. She offers support, encouragement, and clarity as her clients navigate through difficult experiences and uncertain times.