Lauren’s approach is individualized, compassionate, and skills-based. She prioritizes fostering a sense of teamwork by emphasizing her client’s goals, values, and strengths; understanding how they work best in a therapeutic context; and collaboratively drawing on evidence-based therapies to ensure clients develop long-term skills to support their wellbeing. She teaches clients skills to learn new ways of responding to experiences of distress or challenges they face, and move them closer to living the lives they want to live. Her goal is to empower clients to more fully engage in what they find meaningful, enjoyable, and fulfilling.

Lauren’s style is collaborative, engaging, and goal-focused. She believes in helping clients foster a self-compassionate stance toward their struggles while developing tools and approaches to enduringly address these challenges.

In her free time, Lauren enjoys gravel and road biking, running, backpacking, skiing, cooking/baking, and exploring Colorado.

Education and Training:

Lauren is an advanced doctoral candidate earning her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to this, she earned an M.A. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder and a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors in economics.

During her graduate training, Lauren has worked as a therapist at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, where she specialized in chronic pain and psycho-oncology. She also worked as a therapist in the Raimy Psychology Clinic at CU Boulder where she specialized in treating anxiety, mood, and trauma-related concerns. At the University of Colorado, Lauren has also assisted in teaching classes in General Psychology, Graduate Statistics, Abnormal Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology and Psychology of Personality.

Presentations:

Finkelstein, L.B., & Arch, J.J. (2024, June 17-18). Links between hourly psychological stress instability and mental health: Insights from intensive smartphone data collection. [Poster Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Mental Health, Online.

Finkelstein, L.B., Lowry, C.A., & Arch, J.J. (2024, April 18-19). Bristol stool form is associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms in stressed adults. [Poster Presentation]. Front Range Microbiome Symposium, Fort Collins, CO, United States.

Ethan, R., Finkelstein, L.B., & Arch, J.J. (2024, April 18-19). Credibility and expectancies of probiotic supplementation as a means of supporting healthy stress regulation. [Poster presentation]. Front Range Microbiome Symposium, Fort Collins, CO, United States.

Finkelstein, L.B., Bright, E.E., Gu, J., & Arch, J.J. (2024, March 6-8). Optimizing the use of personal values to promote oral anti-cancer medication adherence: Comparing affective and behavioral responses to two distinct approaches. [Poster presentation]. American Psychosocial Oncology Society Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, United States.

Ethan, R., Finkelstein, L.B., & Arch, J.J. (2023, Aug. 16). Methodological considerations for collecting ecological momentary assessment data: Empirical exploration of factors related to response rates. [Poster presentation]. Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute CU-CSU 2023 Annual Summit, Denver, CO, United States.

Bright, E.E., Finkelstein, L.B., Nealis, M., Genung, S.R., Wrigley, J., Schmiege, S.J., & Arch, J.J. (2023, March 15-17). A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to promote adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence among women with breast cancer. [Poster presentation]. American Psychosocial Oncology Society 2023 Annual Conference, Portland, OR, United States.

Finkelstein, L.B., Fishbein, J.N., Luoma, J., & Arch, J.J. (2022, Nov. 17 - 20). Recommendations for improving psychological intervention mediation research: The example of acceptance and commitment therapy. [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2022 Annual Conference, New York, NY, United States.

Finkelstein, L.B., Fishbein, J.N., Bright, E.E., Nealis, M., Schmiege, S.J., & Arch, J.J. (2022, March 17 - 20). Predictors of health appointment cancellations among cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Symposium presentation]. Anxiety and Depression Associate of America 2022 Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States.

Rahman, S.A., Mayer, E.L., Poort, H., Schrag, D., Tung, S.C., Zhou, E.S., Wiley, A., Finkelstein, L.B., Elguenaoui, E., Nolan, M., & Joffe, H. (2021, December 7 - 10). Incidence of patient-reported fatigue developing in patients receiving palbociclib and endocrine therapy for advanced HR+ HER2- breast cancer. [Poster presentation]. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, United States.

Finkelstein, L.B., & Arch, J.J. (2021, September 23 - 26). Anxiety trajectories among cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Psychopathology 2021 Annual Meeting, Online.

Finkelstein, L.B. (2018, May 11). A key to job lock? Labor market impacts of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion provision. [Poster presentation]. Middlebury College’s Spring 2018 Economics Poster Session, Middlebury, VT, United States.

Finkelstein, L.B. (2018, April 20). A key to job lock? Labor market impacts of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion provision. [Symposium presentation]. Middlebury College’s 2018 Spring Symposium, Middlebury, VT, United States.

Publications:

Arch, J.J., Slivjak, E.T., & Finkelstein, L.B. (2024). A novel approach to addressing fear of progression and trauma symptoms in advanced cancer using written exposure to worst case scenarios. Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Arch, J.J., Bright, E.E., Finkelstein, L.B., Fink, R.M., Mitchell, J.L., & Kutner, J.S. (2023). Anxiety and depression in metastatic cancer: A critical review of negative impacts on advance care planning and end-of-life decision making with practical recommendations. JCO Oncology Practice.

Bright, E.E., Finkelstein, L.B., Nealis, M., Genung S.R., Wrigley, J., Schmiege, S.J., Arch J.J. (2023). A systematic review of interventions to promote adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence among breast cancer survivors. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 

Finkelstein, L.B., Friedman, N.P., & Arch, J.J. (2023). Anxiety trajectories among cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology.

Arch, J. J., Joel, J. N., Finkelstein, L.B., & Luoma, J.B. (2023). Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) processes and mediation: Problems and how to address them. Behavior Therapy.

Finkelstein, L.B., Fishbein, J.N., Bright, E.E., Nealis, M., Schmiege, S.J., & Arch, J.J. (2022). Cancer survivors’ cancellations of healthcare appointments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with anxiety and depression. Psycho-Oncology.

Coborn, J., de Wit, A., Crawford, S., Nathan, M., Rahman, S., Finkelstein, L.B., Wiley, A., Joffe, H. (2022). Disruption of sleep continuity during the perimenopause: Associations with female reproductive hormone profiles. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 

Arch, J.J., Finkelstein, L.B., & Dindo, L.N. (2021). Acceptance and commitment therapy in groups. In M.P. Twohig, M.E. Levin, & J.M. Petersen (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Oxford University Press.