Lauren O'Donoghue offers neuro-affirming, trauma-informed support to adults across Australia via telehealth and in-person in Sydney's Inner West.
Lauren has a particular interest in supporting neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ clients, and those who have felt misunderstood or pathologised within traditional mental health systems. She works with a wide range of individuals, including those experiencing burnout, anxiety, mood difficulties, relational challenges, addiction, trauma, chronic illness, disability, and the impacts of neurodivergence.
Her approach is collaborative, practical, compassionate, and shaped by her lived experience of neurodivergence, chronic illness, trauma, and recovery. Lauren integrates evidence-based modalities including DBT, IFS, ACT, narrative therapy, and person-centred counselling, while tailoring sessions to each client’s needs, capacity, and neurotype.
Her work focuses on supporting clients to access their inherent strengths, make-meaning, build skills, and develop insight that will support clients to strengthen their sense of connection to self and others. She integrates evidence-based modalities with psychoeducation and lived experience expertise to support her clients to strengthen their emotional regulation skills, somatic awareness, self-understanding, communication skills, emotional literacy, and self-compassion.
Lauren values authenticity, accessibility, and working with difference rather than trying to “fix” it. She is committed to creating a safe, affirming therapeutic space where clients feel respected, heard, and supported.
With a diverse background in community-based mental health work, AOD counselling, classroom teaching, parenting program coordination, group facilitation and lived experience advocacy, Lauren works from an anti-oppressive and strong social justice lens, and maintains a deep awareness of the broader social and systemic factors that shape wellbeing.
She brings warmth, authenticity, and humour to her work, alongside clinical knowledge, reflective depth, compassion, and a belief in people’s innate capacity to create meaningful change.