About Lauren​

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I am trained as a physician assistant, with nearly ten years of experience in psychiatry prior to leaving clinical practice at the end of 2023. During that time, I worked with over 7,000 patients, taught at the university level, and trained across the country during PA school—delivering babies, scrubbing into operating rooms, and learning to work with the human body under pressure, precision, and responsibility.

 

While I no longer practice medicine, my medical training deeply informs how I understand systems, capacity, and resilience. It taught me how to read patterns, recognize overload, and see what happens when communication within a system breaks down.

 

Over time, it became clear that physiology alone does not tell the full story. The nervous system is also shaped by meaning, by lived experience, and by what the body carries that has never had language. Sensation, emotion, memory, and energy move together—and when one is ignored, the system compensates elsewhere.

 

Life refined this understanding in personal ways. I’ve moved far from my hometown and family—people I remain deeply bonded to. I’ve navigated divorce, rebuilt after my home flooded, and learned how to orient to stability from the inside rather than relying on external certainty. I’ve built enduring friendships across the world and followed a deep love of adventure, experience, and the outdoors—spaces where the nervous system and the soul both speak honestly.

 

At the center of my work now is the nervous system as a living bridge between body, mind, and spirit. This work supports restoring communication within the system so insight is not just understood, but embodied—so emotional truth, physical sensation, and inner knowing can coexist without fragmentation.

 

I don’t approach healing as something to be forced or fixed. I’m interested in capacity—how much life a system can hold, how presence expands over time, and how integration happens through practice rather than performance. This includes honoring the spiritual and energetic dimensions of being human while staying rooted in the body that must contain them.

 

I continue to return to the same inquiry I support others in exploring: how do we live as more fully ourselves—embodying our values, trusting our inner intelligence, and allowing what is true to move through us with clarity, courage, and a fierce, loving honesty?