Lauren Russell
MA, LPC
Lauren is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Tennessee (License #5996). Since 2007, she has been focused on community outreach and advocacy, serving with several nonprofits addressing addiction and homelessness around Nashville, before establishing a successful private practice in 2017 that focuses on trauma using somatic and experiential healing modalities. She is currently on the board of Dance Medicine USA which brings a healing form of dance to the broader community. offering ketamine integration starting June 21.
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PERSONAL STATEMENT:
“I don’t diagnose, I don’t use insurance, they go against my personal value system to do that (the labels are helpful at creating a map for our western minds to understand ourselves, but it’s really a pedagogy of patriachial academia peddled by insurance companies and i resist it as dogma, and use it as a tool the same way I’d use a hammer for a specific kind of task).
I don’t want to be another place like anything else. I want to follow the code book and my ethical board just enough to have my license protect me, but I’m wanting to stretch the edges. I decided years ago that if my license ever prevents me from doing right by the people I serve, then I revoke it.”