Specialty Area: Works with children

Myra Lawrence always knew she wanted to be a psychologist — one that worked with children and that remembered what it was like to be a child and talk to them in their terms.

Myra explains her philosophy on treatment best: “I think that all of us are very hungry for feeling understood and known. In our day-to-day lives, that happens sometimes; but not as much as people need. And not deeply known in the sense that you don’t have to translate yourself to someone else for them to get who you are and what you mean. For them to take you seriously and not evaluate or judge and be ready to comment on it. I think that’s our primary task — to create a place where people can have that experience, because the capacity for attunement and responding appropriately to each person’s experience is what really builds the possibility of them looking at themselves and coming to know themselves in full ways, having empathy for themselves and feeling peaceful and contented with themselves. I think it only comes through a relationship with therapy. I don’t think it’s something you can direct for people. You have to pay close attention, so you’re right where they are.”