What is counseling? Life can lead us down painful, frustrating, and confusing roads. Sometimes we have no idea how we lost ourselves, or how to get ourselves back again. We wake up one day and realize that our relationships are suffering, our own happiness is hard to find, and we are riddled with anxiety, anger, and shame.

Asking for help can be one of the hardest steps in getting your life back. Admitting that you can't swing this on your own is a feeling nobody wants. But the truth is, we all have points in our lives where we need extra support. It takes courage to get better; to look in the mirror and say, "I am not going to live like this anymore." Counseling can help you on your journey to get "unstuck" and become the person you want to be.

We aim to provide healing to all parts of oneself as opposed to just learning how to cope with one's injuries. We recognize that we can tell ourselves the "right thoughts" and "right feelings" all day long, but it doesn't always stick. At LK Institute, we are daily witnesses to clients experiencing psychological healing that is beyond internal coaching. 

While we believe in the importance of skill development, problem solving, and emotional support, we believe therapy needs to go much deeper.

At LK Institute, our counselors utilize a very specific theoretical approach that aims to treat the core issues. We see symptoms as a byproduct of life experiences and negative beliefs about ourselves. We believe in finding the root of the problem and underlying core issues creating current difficulties. The Adaptive Information Processing Model informs our therapy and operates on the premise that neural networks can be restructured to change thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

Not just talking about problems, but getting to the root of them

our approach

Use of EMDR Psychotherapy allows our clinicians to provide clients a concrete conceptualization of present issues and a concrete plan for experiencing real change. 

We go to the difficult places because we know this is what is required for true change.

We are not surface-level therapists.

Our specific approach is not for everyone

LK Institute is a group of clinicians who are all passionate about going deeper than the typical, "So how was your week?" therapy. We are examining what factors are contributing to and maintaining your current symptoms and struggles. We do not chat our way through therapy. We take great effort in conceptualizing your unique and specific situation and make a structured plan to move you into relief. Our warm, gentle and accepting staff create an environment where all are welcome to be you without judgement or motives. Your agenda is our agenda.

Who We Are

"When I came to LK Institute I was having panic attacks nearly every day and did not realize it, but was suffering with OCD-related intrusive thoughts. I felt like I was going crazy and no one could help me. I attended therapy before that taught me skills to use when I was having panic attacks-which helped-but did not actually make the panic attacks stop. I did not want to become dependent on medication. I worked with the team at LK Institute and stopped having panic attacks in just a few months…never to return. EMDR saved my life and honestly, gave me a life I did not know was possible. I am forever grateful. "

"EMDR saved my life and honestly, gave me a life I did not know was possible"

My therapist referred me to LK Institute after I had been seeing her for a year and made no progress. I was unable to get out of bed, was on disability no longer working, and was in the deepest pit of depression that I never imagined would be my life. I worked with Lauren and she utilized EMDR often. I am a walking miracle. When my therapy ended with her I was able to return to the workforce and found a job I love. I have friends, cook, clean, play with my grandkids and truly got my life back. I believe that I would have been dead by now if it had not been for my therapist and her approach to treating me.

"I am a walking miracle"

I had developed an eating disorder in what seemed like overnight. I was incredibly anxious, afraid to eat and was overall riddled with emotional torment. My mom brought me to LK Institute and I immediately felt that my therapist was hearing me. She did not see me as just a case to fit in the textbook. She was an eating disorder expert and amazingly identified what was actually going on underneath the eating disorder, which had nothing to do with food. She used EMDR to treat the real problem and I was in remission in a matter of months. My experience did not match what I had read online that indicated Eating Disorder recovery was a lifelong treatment and ailment where true relief was not possible. I no longer need the eating disorder, and I love myself in a way I did not know was an option. 

"My therapist was hearing me. She did not see me as just a case to fit in the textbook."

"You saved my life Lauren, you gave me the tools to succeed and I am forever grateful. I am living proof that your practices work. We both know I would've been in jail or a junkie if it weren't for you. With the tools that you and Ashley have given me - I want to help others."

"I would've been in jail or a junkie if it weren't for you  [LK Institute]"

"The best thing that ever happened to me was coming to LK Institute. I had been in therapy for two years and seemed to be getting worse. My therapist recognized that the treatment I had been previously engaging in at a different practice was possibly making me worse. She used a totally different approach and I started improving relatively quickly. At the six month mark, it was clear to us both that I no longer needed therapy. I was unable to leave my house for years because of panic attacks, OCD and agoraphobia. Two months after treatment was over, I went on a cross country road trip-something I never dreamed I would be able to do again. 

" I was unable to leave my house for years... Two months after treatment was over, I went on a cross country road trip"

When I came to LK Institute I hated myself. I thought I was worthless and had so much shame from the decisions I had made. EMDR changed me. I am confident and am able to stop sabotaging myself. I am at peace for the first time. 

"I am at peace for the first time"

"I did not know that I had a dissociative disorder and so many therapists had been unable to help me. They told me I was, “too much” or must not want to get better. I could not explain my pain or the way I experienced my emotions take over and turn me into someone I wasn’t. The team at LK Institute was finally able to identify the real issue and then treat it. I never knew that people experienced calm inside, and now I do. I no longer experience take-overs and I am at rest inside. You saved my life. "

"So many therapists had been unable to help me...I no longer experience take-overs and I am at rest inside. [LK Institute] saved my life."

what our patients are saying:

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