Meet Lauren Fisher

Lauren (she/her) lives in the City of Knox, near the Dandenong Ranges, on the borders of Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Country, in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, with her young adult human and elderly Siamese cat.

In her previous career, Lauren was a portrait photographer for over 15 years, working for large family portrait studios, schools, community spaces, and wildlife sanctuaries.

While still occasionally dabbling in photography, she is also an established mixed-media artist who enjoys papercrafts, collage, journalling, and assemblage using found or upcycled materials. Many of these have become popular modalities in her therapeutic offerings.

Alongside the visual arts, Lauren is a lover of all things dance, movement, and music, specifically dance forms from the MENAHT/SWANA regions and their modern fusions. As a result, Lauren very naturally combines aspects of Somatics and Dance and Movement Therapy (DMT) into her therapeutic practice.

Born from her formal education combined with a lifelong deep special interest in nature-based spiritualities and transpersonal arts, Lauren calls herself an “Omnist Spiritual Practitioner”. Although not formally certified, her transpersonal approach has become a much sought-after and integral part of her therapeutic offerings for folks of all ages.

She is also a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

To learn more about the multimodal creative and experiential approaches Lauren offers in her services, please click ✨here✨.

Lauren specialises in neurodevelopmental and neurological disability care for children and youth, including:

✨Autism – all presentations, including complex support needs

✨ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - all presentations

✨Combined types of Autism and ADHD - “Autistic Fast Brains” or “AuDHD”

✨SPD - Sensory Processing Differences inc. APD - Auditory Processing Differences

✨Global Developmental Delay + Intellectual Impairment

✨Muscular Dystrophy

✨ABI/TBI - Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury

✨Trauma, PTSD + CPTSD

✨Tics and Tourette’s Syndrome and more.

Areas of support for younger participants including:

✨General mental health and wellbeing inc. anxiety and depression

✨Capacity Building

✨Sensory and Nervous System Regulation

✨Emotional Regulation

✨Attention (Energy) Regulation

✨Disability specific Burn Out

✨Learning challenges, e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia

✨Demand Avoidance

✨Oppositional Defiance

Other disabilities and areas of support for older participants, including:

✨Alzheimer's and Dementia, inc. Frontotemporal and Aphasia

✨Psychosocial Disability, Bipolar I + II, Schizophrenia Spectrum and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder)

✨Spiritual exploration

✨Exploring identity, gender and sexuality

✨Grief, loss and bereavement

✨Parenting and motherhood

✨Family dynamics and intergenerational trauma

✨Experiences with non-ordinary states of consciousness - including the expansive neurodivergent imagination or spiritual, psychiatric or substance-induced

✨General lack of satisfaction with life’s direction - needing guidance, inspiration and a road map to moving forward.

Lauren uses biopsychosocial-spiritual systems theory and the Social Model of Disability in case conceptualisation, with a deeply compassionate and lived experience understanding of how neurodiversity, disability, mental ill-health and adversity can often intersect and co-occur.

EDUCATION:

✨ BA in Arts Psychotherapy - Ikon Institute of Australia

CURRENT REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND CHECKS

✨ANZACATA Tiered Membership: 58010510

✨PACFA Clinical Counsellor: 32618

✨Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance with Focus

✨NDIS Worker Screening Clearance

✨First Aid and CPR

✨Working with Children’s Check

✨Police Check

SUPERVISION

✨Lauren participates in regular 1:1 and group clinical supervision with a trusted supervisor and a small cohort of peers.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

✨ Lauren participates in regular Professional Development workshops on a range of subjects with esteemed peers from around the world.