Lauren Behrman earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has been in private practice since 1985. She completed Postdoctoral Training in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in Manhattan in 1990 and has considerable professional experience in treating children and families of divorce. She has extensive experience in evaluating and treating children and families since 1976 at Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, Nassau Bureau of Cooperative Educational Services, and the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services-Child Development Center. She has taught and supervised interns and doctoral candidates and was an adjunct professor in the graduate psychology departments at Long Island University and New York University.

Over the past 12 years, Dr. Behrman has focused on developing services for children and families in the process of divorce. She has taken numerous professional trainings in High-Conflict Co-parent Counseling, Parent Coordination, Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce Practice and Mediation. She also serves as a Special Master in the Connecticut Regional Family Trial Courts.

In 2002, Dr. Behrman led an effort to create a New York Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). Along with Hon. Evelyn Frazee, Dr. Behrman was the first co-president of AFCC-NY and is currently on the Board of Directors of AFCC-NY. She is also a board member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals (NYACP) and serves as a Neutral Process Facilitator, Child Specialist and Parent Coach on Interdisciplinary Divorce Teams helping families who are going through the Collaborative Divorce process. Dr. Behrman is the author of €œRoles for Psychologists in Collaborative Divorce Practice€, published in Walfish, S., ed. Earning a Living Outside of Managed Mental Health Care. APA, 2010. She guest lectures at St. John's Law School and Pace Law School in Classes on Collaborative Divorce Practice and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Dr. Behrman has presented extensively at IACP, NYACP, FDMCGNY, and APA on topics such as Hearing the Voices of Adult Children in Divorce, Bringing Stillness to Conflictual Conversations, and Prenups and Postnups in the Collaborative Process: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Dr. Behrman has a private practice in White Plains and Manhattan.