Therapy for Adults and Older Adults Facing Life’s Deeper Questions

Welcome to a premier mental wellness practice for the middle of life — for matters of aging, grief, identity, and mortality.

I'm Dr. Lauren Hunter, an existential psychotherapist and gerontologist providing counseling services in Jefferson, New Orleans, River Ridge, and surrounding communities.
I help adults and elders navigate profound transitions: the grief of loss, the shifting ground of retirement, the anxiety of aging, the mystery of mortality, and the search for identity and meaning in later life.

My practice offers more than symptom relief.
It is a sanctuary for those ready to slow down, look inward, and re-engage with what truly matters.

Whether you’re mourning a loss, reckoning with the passage of time, or confronting questions long set aside, you are welcome here.

An Active, Relational Approach to Healing and Meaning-Making

This isn’t surface-level therapy.

Existential psychotherapy invites us to explore—not avoid—the profound realities of existence:

• Loss and grief

• Aging and retirement transitions

• Identity shifts in later adulthood

• Anxiety around meaning, death, and the unknown

Together, we don’t merely manage symptoms.
We work relationally and actively to make meaning, cultivate resilience, and reclaim vitality.

Sorrow, insight, humor, transformation — they all have a place in this space.

You’re Not Broken — You’re Becoming

Aging, grieving, changing — these are not pathologies to be fixed.
They are thresholds to be honored.

In a world that often fears aging and rushes past grief, this practice offers something different:
A place where your experiences are met with clarity, compassion, and profound respect.

Begin Your Journey Toward Meaning and Renewal

If you’re seeking more than coping — if you long for a deeper way through aging, grief, and life transitions — I invite you to reach out.