Lauren Rush, MLADC
Clinician
Individual Therapy | Tilton, NH + Telehealth Across New Hampshire
Trauma-Informed Therapy for Adults Who Want Things to Feel Different
Some people come to therapy because they know exactly what they want to work on. Others simply know that something feels off, overwhelming, repetitive, or harder to manage than it should.
Lauren works with adults experiencing concerns such as trauma, anxiety, stress, difficult life experiences, emotional patterns, substance use, and recovery. Her approach is supportive and collaborative while still helping clients understand what may be contributing to the difficulties they are experiencing now.
Therapy does not require you to have everything figured out before you begin. Part of Lauren’s work is helping clients make sense of what they are experiencing, identify patterns that may be keeping them stuck, and determine what kind of support may be most useful.
Who Lauren Works With
Lauren works with adults navigating concerns such as:
• Trauma and difficult past experiences
• Anxiety and feeling constantly on edge
• Stress and emotional overwhelm
• Relationship patterns
• Major life transitions
• Substance use concerns
• Recovery and maintaining change
• Difficulty trusting or feeling safe
• Recurring emotional or behavioral patterns
• Feeling stuck even when you understand where a problem may come from
Clients do not need to identify with a specific diagnosis or treatment approach before reaching out.
Therapy can begin with understanding what has been happening and what you would like life to look like instead.
What Working With Lauren Is Like
Lauren’s approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and responsive to the individual.
For some clients, therapy may involve understanding how past experiences continue to influence emotions, relationships, reactions, or beliefs in the present. For others, the immediate need may be managing anxiety, stress, recovery challenges, or current life circumstances.
Lauren works at a pace that reflects the client’s needs rather than assuming that everyone should immediately move into deeper trauma processing.
That distinction is especially important in trauma-focused therapy.
Sometimes the most useful work first involves building awareness, strengthening coping strategies, developing greater stability, or understanding how the nervous system responds to stress. Deeper processing approaches may become appropriate later depending on the person, their goals, and clinical readiness.
Therapy is not about forcing a particular technique. It is about determining what is likely to be useful for the person sitting in the room.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma can affect far more than memories of a specific event.
Past experiences can influence how people respond to stress, relationships, conflict, uncertainty, vulnerability, and even periods of stability.
Trauma-focused therapy can help clients better understand those connections while developing new ways of responding to experiences that may once have required very different coping strategies.
Lauren provides trauma-informed care that may involve emotional regulation, identifying triggers and patterns, developing coping strategies, strengthening a sense of safety, and processing difficult experiences when clinically appropriate.
The pace and focus of treatment are individualized.
EMDR Therapy
Lauren offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly known as EMDR, as one potential component of trauma-focused treatment.
EMDR is not automatically the first step for every client who has experienced trauma.
Before beginning trauma processing, therapy may involve understanding the client’s history, current symptoms, coping resources, stability, goals, and readiness for the work.
When EMDR is clinically appropriate, it may be used to help process distressing experiences and reduce the ways those experiences continue to affect the present.
For other clients, different trauma-informed approaches may be more appropriate.
The treatment plan is based on the individual rather than the assumption that everyone seeking trauma therapy should immediately begin EMDR.
Related service: EMDR Therapy in New Hampshire
Anxiety, Stress, and Emotional Overwhelm
Trauma is not the only reason someone may work with Lauren.
She also works with adults dealing with anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, recurring worry, and patterns that can make everyday situations feel more difficult than they appear from the outside.
Therapy may involve understanding what activates those responses, developing practical ways of managing them, and identifying changes that can make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Experience With Substance Use and Recovery
Lauren also brings professional experience working with substance-use concerns and recovery.
That background can be especially valuable when trauma, mental health, relationships, and substance use overlap.
Substances can sometimes become a way of managing emotional pain, stress, memories, anxiety, or experiences that feel difficult to tolerate in other ways. Recovery may therefore involve more than simply stopping a behavior. It can also involve understanding what the behavior was helping someone cope with and developing healthier ways of responding.
Lauren can work with substance-use and recovery concerns when they are part of the broader clinical picture without requiring addiction to become the sole focus of therapy.
Individual Therapy
Lauren provides individual therapy for adults who want support with trauma, anxiety, stress, emotional patterns, substance use, recovery, and other concerns affecting everyday life.
Treatment is individualized and may involve a combination of processing, skill-building, behavioral change, emotional regulation, trauma-informed care, and other clinically appropriate approaches.
Where Lauren Provides Therapy
In person: Tilton, New Hampshire
Telehealth: Available throughout New Hampshire
Licensed in: New Hampshire
Credential: Master Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (MLADC)
Insurance & Payment
Insurance participation varies by clinician, state, service, and plan.
H&H Counseling verifies clinician participation and plan eligibility before scheduling so clients can better understand their options before beginning services.
Interested in Working With Lauren?
You do not need to determine whether you need EMDR, trauma therapy, anxiety treatment, or another specific approach before reaching out.
Use the Request Care form to tell H&H a little about what you are experiencing and what you are looking for. We will follow up about service fit and next steps.
Submitting a request does not guarantee a particular clinician or appointment time.