Therapy for Wedding Stress

Lauren approaches therapy with empathy, curiosity, and a deep respect for each client’s individual story. She believes that meaningful healing begins in a space where people feel truly seen, supported, and able to explore their inner worlds without judgment. Her approach is grounded in the belief that even the most overwhelming challenges can serve as powerful opportunities for insight, growth, and self-understanding.

Before becoming a therapist, Lauren worked for several years as a teacher, an experience that deeply informs her work. Her background in education gives her a unique understanding of school-based stress, academic pressure, identity development, and the emotional landscape of children, teens, and young adults. She brings patience, attunement, and a collaborative spirit that helps clients feel safe opening up and exploring the patterns shaping their lives.

Lauren also draws on her lived experience as a former competitive collegiate student-athlete. She understands firsthand the world of performance culture—high expectations, internal pressure, perfectionism, time demands, and the challenge of balancing drive with wellbeing. Many clients who identify as high achievers, helpers, or people who “hold it all together” feel particularly understood by her.

In session, Lauren cultivates a warm, nonjudgmental environment where clients can reflect, deepen self-awareness, and develop tools to navigate life with greater clarity and confidence. She takes an integrative approach, drawing from client-centered, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed frameworks to tailor care to each individual’s needs and goals.

Lauren is especially passionate about supporting clients who are navigating:

anxiety or chronic worry

recurring relationship patterns

people-pleasing or perfectionism

school or work stress

major life transitions or identity shifts

performance pressure (academic, athletic, or professional)

Above all, she is committed to helping clients strengthen their sense of self and create more authentic, connected lives—both internally and in their relationships.

Lauren received her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling at Fordham University.

Clinical Focus

• Anxiety, Stress, & Emotional Regulation
• Relationship & Communication Challenges
• Self-Esteem, Identity, & Personal Growth
• Family Dynamics & Healthy Boundaries
• Life Transitions & Young Adult Development
• People-Pleasing, Perfectionism, & Coping Skills

Life Stages & Transitions

• Life Transition & Adjustment
• Emerging Adulthood
• Relationship Growth
• Wedding Planning

Therapeutic Approach

• Client-Centered & Strengths-Based
• Insight-Oriented & Trauma-Informed
• Multicultural Counseling
• Relational & Integrative
• Warm, Attuned, and Collaborative

Taylor first joined AisleTalk as a clinical intern and was thrilled to continue her work with the practice as an associate therapist. She brings a warm, curious, and nonjudgmental style to therapy, helping clients explore their experiences, challenges, and aspirations with honesty and self-compassion. Her approach centers collaboration—she believes clients are the experts of their own lives, and her role is to help illuminate patterns, build resilience, and support meaningful emotional growth.

Rooted in a strong multicultural and anti-oppressive lens, Taylor is committed to providing culturally responsive care. As an Asian American woman, she brings a nuanced understanding of how cultural identity, family expectations, and community narratives shape the way clients move through the world. She strives to create a safe, inclusive space for people of all backgrounds, particularly those from marginalized identities who may not have always felt seen or understood.

With a special passion for working with Gen Z, Taylor supports clients navigating anxiety, identity development, relationship stress, perfectionism, school and career transitions, and the pressure to “figure it all out.” She uses an integrative approach, drawing from evidence-based modalities to tailor therapy to each client’s needs. Together, she and her clients explore recurring patterns, strengthen self-awareness, and build the tools needed to move through life and relationships with greater ease and confidence.

Taylor is an associate therapist at AisleTalk and a graduate of the Mental Health Counseling program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned her Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling.

Clinical Focus

• Gen Z Issues & Identity Development
• Anxiety & Life Stress
• Relationship & Interpersonal Challenges
• Identity & Self-Esteem
• Cultural Identity Exploration
• First-Generation Experiences

Life Stages & Transitions

• Quarter-Life Transitions
• Emerging Adulthood
• Wedding Planning & Relationship Growth
• Therapy for Women of Color

Therapeutic Approach

• Strengths-Based & Client-Centered
• Integrative & Insight-Oriented
• Trauma-Informed Foundations
• Culturally Affirming Care
• Certified PREPARE/ENRICH Premarital Counselor

For more than a decade, Farzana has supported clients through the nuanced, often-demanding terrain of interpersonal stress, major life transitions, identity exploration, and the long-lasting impact of early childhood experiences. Her therapeutic style is warm, accepting, collaborative, and trauma-informed, with particular care for the cultural, relational, and systemic forces that shape a person’s sense of self.

Farzana is especially attuned to how family histories and early attachments influence adult romantic relationships — a dynamic that often becomes more visible during wedding planning or the transition into marriage. As a child of immigrant parents and a South Asian woman of color, she brings lived experience, cultural humility, and an expansive perspective to help clients understand where their relational patterns come from, and how to grow beyond them. She invites clients to explore identity, unlearn old narratives, and build relationships that feel grounded and authentic.

Her clinical work is integrative, drawing from psychodynamic therapy, attachment-based approaches, multicultural counseling, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She is trained in the Gottman Method Level One and is also a certified PREPARE/ENRICH premarital and marital counselor.

In addition to her clinical practice, Farzana has contributed to mental health research within the South Asian community, supported the development of a mental health expansion clinic, and provides clinical supervision to Master’s-level counseling students.

Farzana is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State and can provide telehealth therapy in Florida. She pursued her Master’s degree in mental health counseling from Fordham University.

Clinical Focus

• Anxiety & Depression
• Interpersonal & Relationship Stress
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Impact of Childhood Experiences
• Cultural Identity Exploration
• Attachment & Family Dynamics
• Clinical Supervision

Life Stages & Transitions

• Wedding Planning & Marriage Transitions
• First-Generation & Immigrant Family Experiences
• Therapy for Queer Couples & Open-Monogamy Relationships
• Therapy for Women of Color

Therapeutic Approach

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Psychodynamic-Informed
• Multicultural Counseling
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Gottman Method (Level I Trained)
• Certified PREPARE/ENRICH Premarital Counselor
• Warm, Collaborative, & Insight-Oriented