Hi, I'm Laura
I support people to reconnect with their bodies, understand the patterns shaped by past experience and live with greater presence and self-trust.
I am an integrative somatic therapist, founder of the Somatic Wellness Hub and creator of HeartSomatics™, a body-first approach to meditation that helps people reconnect with their body, listen to their inner guidance and develop deeper self-trust.
My work is rooted in over 25 years of experience in trauma, mental health and substance misuse, and draws on trauma-informed somatic therapy alongside meditation and non-dual contemplative wisdom.
Some people come to work with me through somatic therapy. They may be navigating trauma, attachment patterns, nervous system overwhelm or long-standing coping strategies and are looking for body-based support that goes beyond talking alone. Others arrive through meditation and contemplative practice. They are curious about learning how to listen to the body, sense their inner guidance more clearly and explore what it means to live with greater presence and honesty.
In both spaces, the work is grounded in the same intention. Creating conditions where people can slow down, reconnect with the body and begin to trust their own inner knowing.
I am based in Beverley, East Yorkshire, where I offer in-person somatic therapy alongside online sessions.
My Mission
My work is devoted to creating spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with their bodies and rediscover the quiet guidance that lives within them.
I see my role as bringing people together in a shared field of learning and exploration. A place where we can step out of pressure, performance and hierarchy, and instead meet one another with honesty, curiosity and compassion.
Many of us spend years trying to understand ourselves through the mind. We analyse our past, reflect on our patterns and search for answers, yet something deeper often remains untouched.
Through somatic therapy, meditation and contemplative practice, I support people to listen more deeply to the intelligence of the body. When awareness is allowed to settle in this way, emotions can move, inner conflict softens and a deeper sense of steadiness begins to emerge.
Over time people often discover something simple but powerful. They can trust themselves. They can meet life with greater honesty and presence.
This work is part of my dharma. It is the path I have been shaped for through my own life experience and more than two decades of working alongside others in the fields of trauma, mental health and recovery.
A gentle introduction
Shaped by my own lived experience of dysregulation, addiction and disconnection. After navigating my own history of anxiety, alcohol dependence and a lifetime of functioning on the surface while feeling shut down underneath, I became committed to understanding why so many people, including me, struggle to find relief through cognitive approaches alone.
I've seen first-hand how people are left believing they are “treatment resistant,” when the real issue is that the nervous system isn't being addressed. My insight and experience into the suffering that's created, when we try to think our way out of patterns beginning in the body, sits at the heart of my work.
I support sensitive, high-functioning souls, both online and in-person, who appear to cope on the outside, yet live in chronic anxiety, emotional shutdown or functional freeze. After decades working within overstretched, cognitively focused systems, I am a strong advocate for transforming the way we approach mental health, so the body is no longer excluded from the healing process.
My Story
For most of my adult life, my nervous system survived through freeze. On the surface, I appeared capable, reliable and high-achieving. Inside, I lived with anxiety, emotional numbness and a quiet but persistent disconnection from myself. I was highly sensitive, often out of step with others and never quite feeling like I fitted in. Early relational and developmental trauma had shaped both my nervous system and my sense of who I was, and alongside attachment wounds and a deeply rooted sense of unworthiness, I grew up without a felt sense of identity or internal safety.
Disconnected from my own heart, I moved into caring professions. I became the one who supported others, who held things together, who focused outward. For a long time, I believed that if I could fix enough, help enough or control enough, safety and regulation would finally arrive within my own body. It was a strategy that made sense at the time, and for a while it worked well enough to keep things moving.
Over time, though, those strategies stopped working. What followed was a long and painful unravelling: depression, breakdown, suicidal crisis and time in psychiatric treatment. Running alongside all of it were unexpected moments of spiritual opening that I had no framework for and could not yet integrate. I reached a point where I could no longer outrun what my nervous system was holding, and in that moment I surrendered to something I could not yet name and asked for help.
Recovery came slowly and not in a straight line. Sobriety was part of it, and brought with it its own profound awakening, a further peeling back, a deeper meeting with myself. Gradually and tentatively, a reconnection to my own inner guidance began to emerge, alongside a slow return to my body, my heart and myself. It was through that process that I began to find my way toward somatic approaches, nervous system regulation and embodied contemplative practice. In them I found something I had not encountered before: a way of working that could reach what talking alone could not.
I trained as an integrative somatic therapist, meditation teacher and yoga teacher, and what I bring to this work is shaped as much by what I have lived as by what I have studied. I know from the inside what it is to function highly while feeling profoundly disconnected, and I know that it is possible to find a way back.
“Laura was a revelation. For the first time I learned how to truly recognise the patterns in my body and what it feels like to be deeply relaxed.”
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My Philosophy
Healing isn't about giving something up, it's about understanding why we reach 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 develop 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 online and in-person approach brings together body, heart and awareness to support a return to inner safety, emotional flow and authentic connection. Grounded in my lived experience, study and personal practice of Tantrik Yoga, a non-dual path recognising every experience as a valid expression of consciousness.
Healing isn't fixing what's broken, together 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 Non-dual Shaiva 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 - 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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