LMFTA – Clinical Associate
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Lauren Morris, LMFTA (“Morris”, she/they) is a licensed associate individual, relationship, and sex therapist who specializes in working with the LGBTQIA+ community, couples & relationship constellations, and adolescents, though welcomes all adults, teens, relationships, and families. She especially loves working with relationships searching for increased connection and intimacy, improved communication skills, those navigating desire discrepancy, sexual and gender identity development, and individuals attempting to build healthy attachments, work through grief and trauma, and increase connection.
Morris uses a wide range of treatment models, and they work to tailor each session intentionally to clients’ unique needs. She offers a collaborative, holistic, hands-on approach to therapy and strives to help clients feel whole, integrated, and deeply connected to themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
Morris received her Master of Arts in Couple and Family Therapy and her Sex Therapy Certificate from Antioch University as well as a Master of Arts in Quantitative Research from New York University. Morris is licensed in the state of Washington.
Areas of Focus:
- Individual Therapy:
- Managing anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms
- Navigating grief after loss (e.g., death, divorce, relational rupture)
- Developing healthy boundaries
- Building healthy attachments/relationships
- Processing trauma
- Relationship Therapy:
- Building skills in conflict management
- Increasing connection, vulnerability, and understanding
- Increasing intimacy and sexual connection
- Defining relationship values and developing a shared vision for the future
- Sex Therapy:
- Increasing sexual desire and curiosity
- Exploring sexual and/or gender identity
- Erotic mismatch / discrepancy in desire levels of partners
- Destigmatizing sex and reducing sexual shame
- Exploring non-monogamy
Treatments Used:
- Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Couples Therapy (L1, L2 training completed)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Sex Therapy (for individuals and relationships)
- Somatic Therapy (via Polyvagal Theory)
- Experiential Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Therapies
- Narrative Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Structural Family Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Please feel free to contact Morris for more information: morris@glimmertherapy.com, call 425-728-0877, or visit their website at www.glimmertherapy.com