Meet Laura.....
I am a trauma-informed integrative somatic therapist, certified yoga and meditation teacher, and licensed social worker with over 30 years of professional experience - specialising in mental health, substance misuse and trauma.
Beyond credentials, I’m someone who’s walked the messy, beautiful and often confusing path of healing myself.
For much of my life I lived from the neck up, caught in my head, constantly analysing, striving and doing. I didn’t have a felt sense of my body or my inner world. I could appear capable and connected on the outside, yet inside I was numb, disconnected and unable to truly feel. Long stretches of numbness were punctuated by bursts of overwhelm or anger. Anxiety was the constant hum beneath it all - what I now understand as functional freeze.
Alcohol became the way I self-medicated that inner disconnection, a shortcut to confidence, intimacy and ease. Later, it was overworking, people-pleasing and burnout that kept me going. I was always seeking though, for that belonging, for meaning, for that remembered sense of unity and joy I’d glimpsed through psychedelics in my early twenties. That experience awakened the seeker in me, but the seeking became another form of striving.
It wasn’t until I discovered mindfulness in 2015 that I began to follow a different kind of path, one that turned me inward. As I established sobriety, yoga and meditation became essential companions, helping me embody the awareness that mindfulness had awakened, and somatic therapy helped weave it all together in the body.
My work now gently guides people out of that state of survival and back into connection with their bodies, emotions and deeper truth. It’s grounded in nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, mindful movement, meditation and deep self-inquiry. My approach is trauma-informed and rooted in the understanding that self-healing begins when we stop searching outside ourselves for something to fix us, and start listening to the wisdom that’s already within.
My Philosophy
Healing isn't just about giving something up; it's about understanding why you reached for it in the first place.
The habits we struggle with whether alcohol, stress, perfectionism or avoidance are rarely conscious choices. They are adaptive responses of the nervous system, strategies your body and mind developed to survive. True transformation happens when you reconnect with your body, learn to regulate your nervous system and create new ways of being that foster genuine safety, balance and resilience.
My approach brings together body, heart and awareness - supporting a return to inner safety, emotional flow and authentic connection.
My practice is grounded in my lived study and personal practice of Tantrik Yoga, a non-dual path that recognises every experience as a valid expression of consciousness. Rather than seeing healing as fixing what’s broken, we meet whatever arises with deep presence and compassion, trusting your wholeness is already here, just beneath the surface of patterned experience.
For some, this somatic approach provides profound acceptance and inner calm. For others, it opens doors to deeper spiritual inquiry, exploring who you truly are beneath layers of conditioning and coping strategies.
Whether your goal is emotional regulation, trauma healing or reconnecting with your authentic self, this somatic work invites you back to your body as a safe haven, gently revealing that everything you've been seeking has always been within you.
With Gratitude
My work is rooted not only in lived experience, but in a lineage of somatic and spiritual teachings that continue to inform and inspire my practice.
I want to honour Christopher “Hareesh” Wallis, whose scholarship and practice of nondual Śaiva Tantra continues to shape the heart of my work. Through his teachings and guidance I’ve come to experience a deeper awakening to life and love, one that continues to shape the way I share my work.
I give profound thanks to Aimee Rai, whose calling and courage made it possible for me to train with her in somatic therapy. It was through Aimee that I learned to trust my intuition in my work - to listen more closely to the quiet inner thread that guides both myself and those I walk alongside.
I am also grateful to Dr. Aline LaPierre, whose creation of the NeuroAffective Touch has profoundly shaped how I understand survival patterns and the pathways back to connection.
Finally, I acknowledge the influence of writers and clinicians such as Gabor Maté, Pete Walker, Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine, whose work continues to illuminate the relationship between trauma, the body and the human spirit.
Any clarity you find here comes through their influence. Any errors or simplifications are my own!
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