Dr. Lainie Epstein, PLLC is a Psychologist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Dual Diagnosis, Family Conflict, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, Spirituality, Stress, and Women's Issues. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
My work is witnessing and holding space for healing from childhood trauma, and celebrating the freedom and peace that follows traveling into and then out of the pain of those experiences. I bring focus to acceptance, compassion, nurturing, and love for ones self, exactly as you are today. I believe that we cannot shame ourselves into action or into change, we must love and validate ourselves in order to grow intentionally. I think humor is valuable in therapy and believe in the innate healing power of every individual. My experience of fatness has changed and is changing as I excise the fat-phobic beliefs we are surrounded by and replace them with a new paradigm of body love. I am pursuing a certification in Body Trust, and believe in a non-diet approach to health and well-being. Self-love is radical. I derive my style from my authentic personality (I am in the room and not a blank slate) and feminist theory, working to decrease the power imbalance in the traditional “therapist/patie