Our Team
Lauren Watson, LPC, LCPC
Lauren is a psychotherapist licensed by the states of Virginia and North Carolina. Her integrative approach to psychotherapy incorporates a focus on the environment, thoughts, feelings, and actions that lead to unhealthy responding. Her psychotherapy is specifically tailored to each child, adolescent and family's needs, abilities, and circumstances. With over 10 years experience, Lauren has worked in both the hospital setting, intense outpatient and private practice providing support to a wide range of challenges including anxiety, emotional dysregulation, depression, self injury, and interpersonal challenges.
A specialist in twice exceptional, gifted and neurodiverse clients, Lauren works with families to understand how altering the environment and scaffolding goals can help young people reduce the friction their symptoms may cause them. Her goal is to help her clients work towards being comfortable being their authentic selves while they navigate life’s difficulties.
Lauren believes in a holistic approach to treatment. She frequently engages in a treatment team approach with physicians, occupational therapists and speech and language pathologist. Additionally she works collaboratively with schools and universities to identify and offer solutions to road blocks that hinder academic and social success.
Bentley Dorn, LPC
Bentley Dorn is a Licensed Professional Counselor licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She attended James Madison University as an undergraduate majoring in Psychology and completed her masters in Counselor Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Bentley works with children, adolescents, and families in various settings including individual, group, and family therapy. She has extensive experience working with adolescents in crisis struggling with various mental health symptoms to include depression, anxiety, mood dysregulation, anger, PTSD, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, low self-esteem, ADHD, self-harm behaviors, at-risk behaviors, school avoidance, behavioral concerns, and interpersonal relationship issues. In addition to her experience working with adolescents, Bentley has years of experience supporting children individually and in group settings while target social skills, executive functioning skills, and symptoms related to ADHD, anxiety, depression, and autism. Bentley works to collaborate with all supports in place for each client to include parents, additional outpatient providers, and school counselors.
Bentley strives to provide a safe and trusting environment in which individuals can actively engage in the therapeutic process in order to progress and grow while learning emotion regulation strategies and healthy coping skills. Her therapeutic approaches are individualized to each client and may include cognitive behavioral, solution focused, and person-centered therapies.
