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Amanda Collins, MA, PLPC
Amanda Collins is a Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana with a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Xavier University of Louisiana. She spent six years working in special education before transitioning into counseling, which shaped how she approaches clinical work—grounded, relational, and deeply respectful of each person's lived experience.
Amanda specializes in working with individuals and couples navigating perinatal mental health, sexual trauma, identity development, life transitions, and relationship concerns. She is passionate about providing affirming, trauma-informed care to LGBTQIA+ clients and other marginalized communities. Amanda's clinical approach is integrative, drawing on attachment theory, narrative work, and parts-based therapy to help clients make sense of where they’ve been and figure out where they want to go.
Hope Gersovitz, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT
Hope graduated from LSU with a Masters in Counselor Education. In 2004, she became a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. After receiving her PhD in Behavioral Science through California University and opened her first private practice, New Orleans Counseling & Hypnosis Center, in 2011. 3 years later she opened her second practice, Theratique, with a mission of creating a place of rest, relaxation, and centering for all of its clients. While Hope works with a broad spectrum of clients, she has worked to expand her areas of expertise to include depression and anxiety stemming from maternity and family planning as well as the trials and tribulations thereof. Motivated by her personal experiences on the path to motherhood, Hope draws from her own struggles with IVF and adoption navigation to help her clients. She is an interactive, solution-focused therapist. Her therapeutic approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients effectively address their personal life challenges.
Lauren Herbert, LPC
Lauren received her Master’s Degree in clinical mental health counseling at LSU Health Sciences Center- New Orleans in 2021. She specializes in working with those who are struggling with trauma, anger, or emotional dysregulation. Additionally, she works with couples and families who are looking to improve communication, enhance intimacy within their relationship or maneuver life transitions/conflicts within themselves and/or family members.
She operates from a person-centered, trauma-focused, and attachment-based approach. During sessions, she predominantly works from an emotionally-focused (EFT) perspective, bringing in elements of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). We move at your pace, to get “un-stuck”, and increase your strengths in order to move forward and thrive.
She is only offering telehealth sessions through a video conferencing platform at this time.