B.A. Secondary Education
M. Ed. Community Counseling
8+ years counseling experience
BCBS, Medicaid, DFS, and Victim Services Provider
Individual Counseling
Family Counseling
Adolescent Counseling
Faith Based, Biblical Counseling
Play and Art Therapy for Children
Case Management and Support
In 2006, Lauren first earned her Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from Clemson University and started a teaching career, only to realize that adolescents and parents were meeting with her frequently after school to seek counsel and support in other areas of their lives. This and an evident heart for people of all ages, led her to earn a Master’s in Community Counseling from Clemson and she began work at Hospice of the Upstate in a new position created for grief counseling. There she developed grief and loss children’s programs, assisted in a statewide grief camp, and worked with families who were experiencing various kinds of trauma and loss. She served as a board member for First Steps and volunteered teaching parenting classes. She worked as an appointed counselor for several school districts as well and offered groups and individual counseling within the schools. During this time, she helped establish a new counseling private practice and served there part time as a child and family therapist incorporating trained art and play therapy techniques for young children.
Since moving to Jackson, Wyoming she’s worked as a licensed professional counselor for the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center for 5 years offering a wide range of services. She served for the ACT program assisting severe persistent mentally ill adult clients. She’s counseled families, adults, adolescents, and children who have needed support during life’s transitions. Whether is was trauma, sexual abuse, divorce, grief and loss, crisis, parenting, or another life experience; Lauren’s counseling style and passion has remained the same. She considers it a joy to walk alongside others offering a creative, gentle, and open counseling approach so that they might learn from their past, embrace their present, and strive toward a true hope and plan for their future.
She currently offers counseling to individuals, families, and children in her private practice that opened in 2016. She’s an active member of a local church that led her to study Biblical counseling for 2+ years and she now offers this particular type of counseling for those that request and seek a faith based, Biblical approach. She works alongside clients as they heal to help them gain the momentum to pursue their future based on who they are and their fundamental values. When Lauren’s not spending time in the service of counseling, she spends her time serving and enjoying her family and children, who are her greatest joys and her best teachers.
Please call for a free phone intake in order to determine if we’re a good fit, to receive my disclosure statement with details about my practice, and to schedule your first appointment.
Lauren Bishop
307-200-9343
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