Lauryn Hunter

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About Lauryn Hunter

Lauryn Hunter LMFT, ATR is an award-winning art therapist in private practice and working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Hospital as a Mental Health Specialist in child development. She facilitates art therapy groups for students grades K-12 in LAUSD schools. These groups often address emotionally stressful situations such as trauma, grief, divorce, addiction, adoption/foster care and severe mental illness. She continues to utilize a wide variety of therapeutic approaches with private clients such as mindfulness parenting, visual imagery, and attachment theory. As a collaborative therapist, her goal with clients is to integrate art therapy with conversations to offer powerful ways to provide insight into a persons physical, mental & emotional well-being. For her many years of service to community mental health Lauryn has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award and the Rawley Silver Award for Excellence by the American Art Therapy Association. In addition to working with children, Lauryn has been instrumental in creating curriculums for parent workshops and teacher trainings addressing a variety of topics such as self-esteem, social skills, anger management as well as school-wide programs on bullying and acts of kindness. In addition to her clinical work Lauryn Hunter has been an adjunct faculty member at Alliant International University, Antioch University and Philips Graduate Institute teaching core curriculum courses for their Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) graduate/doctoral programs.