Katie received her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Auburn University and is an Associate Licensed Counselor at Impact Family Counseling. Katie has focused on helping children, adolescents, and adults improve their self-worth, work through anxiety, process traumatic events, and resolve conflict in relationships. Katie worked in the inpatient setting during her graduate internship which helped grow her skills in crisis counseling.
Katie has achieved the national certification for counseling. Katie works from a person-centered framework but incorporates different theories including cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion focused therapy. Katie believes that real change occurs when people are given the chance to work on their mental health and are provided with a space where they feel safe enough to heal from the past, cope with the present, and plan for the future.
Some of Katie’s hobbies/interests include Disney, Taylor Swift, reading, and singing in the car.
Lauren Arnold, ALC
Counselor
Lauren received her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Wake Forest University and is an Associate Licensed Counselor at Impact Family Counseling. Lauren also has a background of 10 years in healthcare serving as a medical assistant in adult medicine and the last 5 years in pediatrics at Children’s of Alabama. Lauren’s main focus as a counselor is working with clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, Autism, ADHD, ODD, conduct disorder, PTSD, a history of sexual abuse, sexually reactive behaviors, and personality disorders.
Lauren works with children, adolescents, and adults. She uses a person-centered and existential therapy approach and incorporates both cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy to help guide clients to their most authentic selves. Lauren worked in a residential treatment setting before Impact which has helped her grow her skills in crisis counseling and helping clients manage negative behaviors.
Some of Lauren’s hobbies are reading, writing, traveling, music and theatre, hiking, and being outdoors.