The Guest Host Series Christina P. Kantzavelos, LCSW interviews Lauren Auer

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Auer is a Trauma Therapist who has built a community of nearly 200,000 followers by sharing what she's learned from seeing trauma from every possible angle.
Lauren's path into trauma work was unintentional. What started as a graduate school internship at an agency working with both juvenile offenders and abuse victims turned into a career-defining passion. She discovered she loved the complexity of seeing trauma from multiple perspectives - working with victims, offenders, and their families gave her a unique understanding of how trauma ripples through every layer of experience.

From there, Lauren worked at a women's domestic violence shelter and eventually became director of a rape crisis center, where she provided therapy to people of all ages while also training police and medical staff. She's been in emergency rooms doing immediate crisis intervention and in therapy rooms with people processing childhood trauma decades later. This breadth of experience - from the immediate aftermath of trauma to long-term healing - shaped her understanding that trauma isn't one-size-fits-all.

Lauren is trained in EMDR, certified in Brainspotting, and holds certifications in Somatic Trauma Healing and Compassion Fatigue. Her approach reflects what she learned in those early years: every person's trauma looks different, so every person's healing needs to look different too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. I interview incredible people
0:05.7	who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma. A big thank
0:10.8	you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show.
0:15.8	Hey, Lauren. Hi. I am so excited to have you on because I've been a big fan for a long time. I think you have
0:25.2	so much wisdom that you get to share with us. I know via via Instagram and I'd love for people to get
0:33.0	to know you better. Like you are the trauma, you are the trauma therapist. Welcome, welcome on.
0:39.5	Thanks for having me. I'm always happy to talk about this stuff. And we kind of discussed
0:45.3	earlier, like the way I found you was through this one. I think it was a real of you throwing
0:51.2	the DSM in the trash end and you're like, well, it's back up there.
0:55.5	I was just for the video.
0:58.7	Yeah, but I was like, yes, yes, yes, because it isn't everything, right?
1:04.3	The DSM doesn't have it all figured out.
1:07.9	That's why we have, we constantly have new additions coming out. And,
1:11.8	and we also talked about the fact that, you know, we have clients that go on to, you know,
1:17.3	we call it, I call it TikTok University, Instagram University. And they, you know, they'll come to me
1:23.1	and say, I diagnose themselves. Like you mentioned borderline earlier. I mean, what are your thoughts actually on that of folks using these platforms for educational purposes?
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:37.3	It's really interesting.
1:38.8	I'm actually, I'm working on an article this week for my substack about this.
1:43.9	So it's like definitely forefront of my mind because I feel like I an article this week for my substack about this. So it's like definitely forefront of my
1:45.8	mind because I feel like I wrestle with this a lot myself as somebody who's kind of ended up in the
1:51.7	social media creator space in the mental health world. And because it's so important to me personally to not only give accurate information,
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