We want you to have the care and the experience you deserve.
Our Services/Rates
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50 min Individual Therapy Session
Together, you and your therapist examine what current stressors and behaviors are contributing to depression, anxiety or a state of stagnation. While every therapist has their own style and theoretical grounding, we tailor our methodology to each of our client’s identified needs and preferences. As a team, you and your therapist will work to help you achieve a sense of agency over your life and the confidence in yourself to navigate difficult situations more effectively on your own. You’ll likely explore your family of origin and look at past and current patterns, such as self-esteem issues, substance use, body image issues, relationship issues, anger issues and more. Together, you’ll identify manageable goals to help you achieve the changes you want, and you’ll work toward those goals using a variety of techniques that work for you. Typically, meetings are weekly, and sessions are offered in person and via Telehealth.
| At our practice, accessibility, equity and sustainability are important to us, so we try to set rates that take your needs, our needs and everyone’s positionally into account. You’ll see that there are different rate structures dependent on whether you’re seeing one of our more senior clinicians, one of our LMSW-level clinicians or one of our interns. Sliding scale spots are based on availability. Please inquire to find out more.
Lauren: | $175-$300 | Full Rate
| $100-$175 | Middle Income
| $20-$100 | Lower income
Heart: | $180-$200 |
| $20-$80 | Intern rate
50 min Couple’s Therapy Session
We approach couples using attachment-focused and family systems lenses. We examine how partners’ families of origin can create attachment patterns and patterns of behavior, as well as roles and expectations of individuals based on the needs of the family system as a whole. We explore how those patterns and roles can be activated or aggravated by having partners whose patterns, roles and expectations are different. We then work to improve skills and build mutual understanding. We utilize modalities such as somatic therapies, mindfulness-based therapies, DBT, IFS and others.
| We offer a three-tier solidarity fee structure, which is based on household income and the Green Bottle Sliding Scale. Spots available for middle and lower income fees are based on availability. Please inquire to find out more.
| $250-$350 | Full rate
| $150-$250 | Middle income
| $50-$150 | Lower income
*Additional partners can be included for $50 per person per session.
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Hypnosis is a gentle, supportive, highly effective modality that can be used in conjunction with your regular psychotherapy to help with smoking cessation, social anxiety, performance anxiety, low self-esteem, substance use recovery, disordered eating, chronic pain, creative blocks and phobias, in addition to building positive habits and creating positive mindset shifts. Hypnosis involves the induction of a hypnotic state - a state of deep relaxation and heightened focus with which we all engage on a regular basis - which allows the hypnotherapist to make suggestions and provide affirmations based on the goals of the client that are more likely to imprint and encode due to the relaxed, focused state of the client.
Clinical hypnosis is a collaborative and consensual practice where the client retains all agency and remains in control of the journey. Clinical hypnosis can help create more self-collaboration, foster self-love and work toward the treatment goals you'd like to see. Hypnotherapy utilizes energy psychology, neurolinguistic programming and guided meditation to work with the brain's neuroplasticity to create lasting change. Hypnosis is offered both in person and via Telehealth.
*hypnotherapy is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric treatment or therapy, and should be used as a supplement to these.
90 min Hypnotherapy Intake Session
| $150 | Inquire about sliding scale
60 min Hypnotherapy Follow-up Session
| $100 | Inquire about sliding scale
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Are you newer to private practice? Are you changing things up in an established practice? Are you working with new types of clients? Are you just feeling generally out of your depth and seeking support, guidance, inspiration, or clinical consultation?
We can support you in working with folks on any of the following: Substance Use, Highly Sensitive People/BPD diagnoses, Folks who have difficulties in/with relationships, Perfectionism/Overactive Inner Critic, Polyamory/CNM, Queer and Trans-identified folks exploring their intersecting identities, Parenting support? Are you interested in incorporating the following into your practice: Mindfulness, DBT, esoteric/metaphysical/spiritual tools (tarot, oracle cards, astrology, ritual and spellwork) into psychotherapy practices.
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60 min
| We offer a solidarity fee structure for practice coaching, which is based on household income and the Green Bottle Sliding Scale. Spots available for middle income fees are based on availability. Please inquire to find out more.
| $175-$300 | Full rate
| $100-$175 | Middle Income
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We offer case consultation around working with clients with BPD and highly sensitive clients to help them feel more empowered to choose their own path, tune into their own voice and build lives that feel meaningful and fulfilling to them, working with clients around sobriety and making choices that align with their highest good, working with queer and trans identified clients to feel more joy and euphoria around their identities and working through barriers to holding space for the above-mentioned clients. We would meet weekly, biweekly or monthly, or on a one-off basis, depending on your needs for support and guidance.
60 min
| We offer a solidarity fee structure, which is based on household income and the Green Bottle Sliding Scale. Spots available for middle and lower income fees are based on availability. Please inquire to find out more.
| $175-$300 | Full rate
|$100-$175 | Middle income
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Pricing and availability will be dependent on the group and the clinician. See below for complete list of groups offered and to book your spot.
Group Offerings
During times of turmoil and stress, it can be appealing to try to plan, to strategize, to consume information as though your life depends on it, to scramble for whatever sense of control over our circumstances we think we can grab at to feel like we know the outcome of a future that hasn’t yet come to pass. We know from research, from spiritual teachings and perhaps from our own experience that this method only increases anxiety.
This offering is meant to help us tap into our instincts and our intuition and to develop a trusting relationship with ourselves so that we really feel, deep in our bones, the we can withstand whatever comes. That we will keep ourselves safe.
I’ll be meeting virtually on Mondays at 12pm on a weekly basis to use hypnosis to ground, to strengthen self-belief, and to bring you closer to your intuition so that you walk away feeling more relaxed and better assured in your ability to withstand troubling times. Click the flier to the left to sign up and get a Zoom link. This offering is free for all, though I welcome any exchange you’d like to offer at Venmo: Lauren-Urban.
Our Commitments to our Therapy-Seekers and our Community
Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness is a small group practice founded by Lauren Urban, LCSW in Ridgewood, Queens. Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness is an evolution of Lauren’s private therapy/coaching practice, started in Williamsburg, Brooklyn back in 2012. We are a practice of Queer and Trans therapists, of neurodivergent therapists, of poly and kinky therapists, of folks from all different lived experiences. It is Lauren’s profound hope that Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness will be a space where clients and clinicians alike can feel supported and encouraged to grow and to stretch themselves, to develop authentic styles and voices, and to embody their most authentic lives — lives that they feel that they have chosen and lives that they feel proud to be living.
Whether you’re reaching out for therapy, practice building, case consultation, as a potential employee or for group offerings and services, we strive to make Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness feel like a soft place to land. Welcome!
What is Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness?
At Psychobabble Therapy and Wellness, we have made the commitment to maintaining an anti-oppressive, identity-affirming space. We are aware of the systems we exist within that oppress some and elevate others, and we are aware of our places and our privilege within those systems. We have made the commitment to strive to be in right relationship with the communities with which we intersect and interact on a daily basis. We commit to attending training and seeking learning and mentorship in order to dismantle these systems within ourselves and to be anti-racist, anti-oppressive practitioner. We commit to striving for transparency of our pricing and our policies and to access for therapy-seekers at all income levels. We commit to employing ethical, fair and non-exploitative labor practices with our therapists and practitioners. We commit to honoring all of our commitments. We commit to receiving feedback and invitations to make it right when we have failed to honor one of these commitments.
Testimonials
Practice Coaching w/Lauren
“When I was considering starting my private practice Lauren offered me priceless advice and practical information. She helped me employ practical details that I use regularly in my practice. I knew I could reach out to her about anything, big or small; we would work together if she did not know the answer! My practice is thriving thanks to the support and advice I received from Lauren!”
-Erin L Nau, PhD, LCSW
Hypnotherapy w/Lauren
“I really enjoyed my hypnosis experience with Lauren! She was compassionate, thoughtful, curious, and warm. She listened carefully to my goals and checked in regularly throughout. I was able to connect to some resources that I continued to work with in the weeks following our meeting, and found it very helpful!”
-MM