Lauren Ehret, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who joined the team at the Novi clinic. Dr. Ehret received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center/University of Michigan. Prior to joining the DBTIMI team, Dr. Ehret worked at in residential, inpatient, and PHP/IOP subspecialty programs for adolescents and adults with severe primary mood disorders and comorbidity, especially Borderline Personality Disorder and anxiety disorders in Wisconsin.
Dr. Ehret is strongly committed to providing evidence-based treatment. She enjoys working with adolescents and adults of all genders with complex clinical presentations involving severe primary difficulties with depressed mood, mood dysregulation, anxiety, and/or trauma-related difficulties. Dr. Ehret has had the opportunity to learn and gain experience providing evidence-based treatments for many diagnoses and age groups in outpatient, PHP/IOP, Residential, and Inpatient settings, so she is able to address many clients’ needs, including comorbid eating disorders (AN, BN, ARFID, OSFED) and psychosis (including Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders).
In addition to her work providing direct patient care, Dr. Ehret has co-facilitated training workshops and provided clinical supervision on evidence-based treatments such as Behavioral Activation for Depression, Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for PTSD, Exposure and Response Prevention (ExRP) for OCD, and Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents. She has also collaborated on publication of scientific manuscripts and presented at several national and international conferences on affective neuroscience research – particularly related to Dr. Ehret’s interests in reward learning in depression and fear conditioning in PTSD and the implications individual differences in these processes have for treatment outcomes.