aaron lauber, lmhc
About my practice
While I enjoy working with people from all walks of life, I specialize in helping people with whom I have a special affinity—creative and performing artists, young adults, people in helping professions, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. I have experience helping people with depression, anxiety, stress management, anger, shame and self-esteem, relational trauma, addiction and codependency, life transitions, and career and relationship issues. My clients have included musicians, actors, comedians, writers, composers, designers, visual artists, architects, teachers, students, scientists, therapists, social workers, attorneys, and people in the technology field. I am humbled and grateful to work with a culturally diverse group of clients, and am actively anti-oppression in all its forms. I have a background in mind-body medicine, secular Buddhism, and a special interest in working with meditators, yogis, and other spiritual practitioners.
My therapeutic focus is on helping people work through problems in living, heal painful past experiences, and live the fullest, most authentic lives possible. Relationships are key to this work—both how we relate to ourselves and the quality of our connections to others.
My therapy approach is integrative, guided by attachment theory, psychoanalytic theory, interpersonal neurobiology, trauma theory, and emotion-focused and mindfulness-based approaches. Many of our difficult emotions and problems in life arise from how we have adapted to distressing experiences with others, and change and healing is facilitated by positive experiences in an affirming therapeutic relationship.
about me
I have over 25 years of diverse experience as a musician, educator, healthcare and social service administrator, counselor and psychotherapist. In addition to working with clients on my private practice, I sing in the professional choir at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church and am an adjunct instructor in the online counseling program at NYU’s Steinhardt School. I have also taught as an adjunct in the graduate counseling program at Hunter College–CUNY.
My clinical mental health experience has included vocational work with individuals in recovery from severe mental illness at the Mental Health Association of New York City; counseling and coaching students in the counseling center at Concordia College–New York; individual psychotherapy and mind/body group therapy with individuals suffering from chronic pain, obesity, severe mental illness, and anger management issues at Gouverneur Health; and relational psychodynamic psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
I earned a Master of Science in Education degree in Mental Health Counseling and have doctoral-level clinical training in counseling psychology from the Fordham University Graduate School of Education. I am an AEDP Level II therapist and hold a Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. I am a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor (License No. 008940).
