Welcome, I’m Laurie
I’ve always been drawn to what lives beneath the surface, to the deeper currents moving through our lives, often just out of view.
Not as an idea, but as something I could feel.
In the natural world, in quiet moments, in the space between people, there was a depth to being alive that felt intimate, real, and wildly mysterious. A sense that there was more here than I’d been taught to notice, name, or prioritize.
And yet, for much of my life, I tried to meet that depth with understanding. I believed that if I could achieve enough, make sense of myself, or find the right framework, I would eventually feel at home in who I was. I moved through systems of success and validation. I did well. And still, something in me remained unsettled, an ache for something more honest, more grounded, more true.
What I didn’t understand was that this depth couldn’t be reached by striving or insight. It had to be lived.
And it was often through loss and through relational rupture, that this became impossible to ignore. I walked through seasons that dismantled what I thought I knew and asked me to stay with what actually was there.
Grief changed me. So did love. So did the humbling recognition of my own perfectionism and the belief that I wasn’t enough. I began to see how much of our suffering grows from inherited conditioning, from the quiet and overt messages about who we must be to belong.
Over time, my path became less about becoming someone better and more about remembering who I already was.
There was also a growing recognition that what we call healing does not happen in isolation from the world we are living in.
I began to question the frameworks I had been trained in, the ways they locate the problem inside the individual, as if our suffering exists apart from the conditions that shape us. As if we can be “well” in a world that is, in many ways, fragmented, extractive, and disconnected from life.
I couldn’t reconcile the idea that people are broken and need fixing, or that we should simply adapt to systems that ask us to override our bodies, our grief, and our truth.
What I saw, again and again, was something different.
Beneath anxiety, depression, and disconnection, there is often an intelligent response, of the nervous system, the psyche, the soul, to a world that has lost its way.
What we call symptoms are not just problems to solve, but signals pointing toward what has been silenced, severed, or unmet.
There was grief in this seeing. And also anger, at how deeply we’ve been taught to mistrust our own nature.
My work began to shift.
Less about helping people function within the given structures,
and more about supporting a return to what is real, alive, and inherently whole.
A remembering that is not separate from the body, not separate from relationship, not separate from the wider field of life we belong to.
What I discovered is that healing isn’t about transcending our humanity. It’s about becoming more intimate with it, with our patterns, our longing, and our relationships. With the places we brace, protect, and reach for connection.
Insight matters. But transformation unfolds when we can stay in real experience. In rupture and repair, in grief and beauty, in the moments we would normally turn away.
I work with people who sense there is something more to their lives, more than achievement, more than repeating relational cycles, more than the roles they’ve learned to perform. Together, we explore what lives in the body and soul, and what longs to emerge.
I believe we are already whole. The path is one of remembrance, one that none of us can walk alone.
I approach this work with depth and reverence, and with grounded presence. I am not interested in bypassing pain or idealizing transformation. I am interested in helping you come into more honest, embodied contact with your life.
Because when we do, we begin to inhabit who we truly are, and meet life, and each other, from that place.
What I Stand For
I am here to walk beside those at the edge of change, honoring what is raw, real, and still becoming.
I am here to listen for what's true beneath the surface and welcome the unraveling that leads back to wholeness.
I am here for full-spectrum living—grief, joy, shadow, wonder—all of it.
I am here to create a space where nothing has to be earned or performed.
I am here in service to the sacred intelligence moving through all life.
I am here for beauty, not as decoration, but as a way of being.
I am here to support those who are ready to live from soul, not strategy, fostering quiet revolutions that begin within.
I am here because the healing our world needs begins with the healing of the human heart.
Professional Background
My work is rooted in both lived experience and formal study. I hold graduate training in psychology and have spent years weaving together evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic approaches with mindfulness, yoga, somatic wisdom, and earth-honoring practices. My path has also been shaped by transpersonal perspectives, the transformative power of ritual, expanded states of consciousness, and deep listening to the more-than-human world.
I draw from depth-oriented, trauma-informed, and holistic frameworks—blending modern psychological insight with ancient ways of knowing. What I offer lives at the intersection of science and spirit, intellect and intuition, healing and wholeness.
Credentials & Experience
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (California) with over 20 years of clinical experience
Guide and ceremonial facilitator of rites of passage for more than 15 years
Group facilitator across therapeutic, community, and transformational settings for 15+ years
Dedicated yoga practitioner for decades, integrating embodied wisdom into all areas of my work
Extensive training in somatic therapies, parts work, and integrative approaches to healing
A decade of experience offering coaching in service of soul-aligned growth and transformation
Ongoing student of wisdom traditions and earth-honoring practices
