Lauren Hart, M.A., AMFT, APCC

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Lauren Hart, M.A., AMFT, APCC

Welcome! I’m a therapist in Southern CA accepting new clients either in person or online. Supervised by Dustin Schultz LMFT 85373

02/25/2026

My client’s are probably sick of hearing me say this, but it’s true:

✅More than one thing can be true at the same time ✅

Something I hear a lot is, “yes this sucks, but it could be worse” or “others have it worse.”

Yes that is probably true. But instead of that making you feel better, what you are actually doing is dismissing your own experiences.

❣️Just because others might have had it worse, does not make your own experiences or emotions any less true❣️

Dismissing our own experiences and emotions will always lead to things like burnout, generalized anxiety, anger, low stress tolerance etc.

There is always duality in life.

🔥You can hold the pain of others without dismissing your own🔥

02/10/2026

Hi! I’m Lauren. Southern California based therapist passionate about helping teens and young adults heal from, and/or work through, their hardest seasons.

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, or coming back to it, I would love to chat 🤍

02/07/2026

A little nervous system reset 🤍

01/24/2026

Today I met Eeyore.

When I told him I help kids and teens understand their feelings, especially sadness, he pulled me aside and hugged me. For a long time. No words. No fixing. Just presence.

Eeyore reminds us:
You can feel sad and still be worthy of love.
You can move slowly and still matter.
You don’t have to pretend to be okay to belong.

For every kid who feels like an Eeyore in a world that celebrates Tiggers — you are not broken.
You are human. And you are enough. 🤍
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01/11/2026

Another fun meetup with the ! A community of therapist friends who know how to care for themselves and have fun? I will always be here for that. Love this crew. 🤍

12/30/2025

If you can relate to any of these, the way to help yourself isn’t more discipline, ✨it’s more care.✨

Burnout is not a motivation problem, it’s a capacity problem.

When you have been under continuous demand (as most of us are this time of year), these signs are a protective response from our nervous systems; doing their best to cope.

Grace and self-compassion are not indulgent.
THEY ARE REGULATING.

✨Reducing expectations, slowing your pace, and responding with kindness, lowers physiological stress, restores emotional regulation, and increases capacity over time.✨

Healing doesn’t come from pushing harder.
✨It comes from listening sooner.✨
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12/19/2025

Wrapping up the last few clients of the year and feeling so grateful.

This year has brought a LOT of challenges for me, for my clients, and for a lot of people around me. But we chose to work on ourselves, to find the joy in the midst of the hard, and to come out of it all better people.

This world can be so negative, so can we start a thread of gratitude and celebration? Share with me below and let us celebrate the big things and the little things with you!

12/10/2025

Another fun morning with the ! (And yet another picture of and I with our emotional support Pooh lol).

11/29/2025

It all has a purpose 🤍

11/25/2025

Sometimes the chaos and hardships of life seem to hit all at once and can feel all consuming. It’s so important to find the little joys in life to keep you grounded and to remind you there is still good, joy and peace in the midst of the chaos, stress and pain, even if it’s just taking a 5 minute pause to watch the sun set and breathe.

What are some small joys you have found today?

11/16/2025

Our minds and our body’s are incredibly connected in so many ways. When our body holds tension it’s telling the brain it doesn’t feel safe, which then causes anxiety to fester.

So when you slowly breathe, and release that tension in your body, it activates the parasympathetic nervous system and tells your mind it can calm down.

Regulation starts in the body. 🤍

11/14/2025

A dream of mine has always been to eventually utilize horses in the psychotherapy context, and today I got to meet with a therapist friend of mine who also has that dream.

It’s a very big dream that will take a lot of time and resources, but it’s so fun talking about making it a reality! Hopefully someday, sooner than later, it WILL become a reality.

In the meantime, here’s a cute picture of us hanging out with my personal therapy horse (aka my best 4 legged friend of the past 25 years) 🤍

Address

1601 Dove Street Suite 105
Newport Beach, CA
92660

Telephone

+19492912717

Website

https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1562115

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