Hi, I'm Laura
I help heart-led women reconnect with their bodies, soften survival patterns and live from a place of presence and purpose
Founder of the Somatic Wellness Hub and creator of HeartSomatics™, a body-first approach to emotional healing. Rooted in over 25 years’ experience in trauma, mental health and substance misuse, this work draws on trauma-informed integrative somatic therapy, non-dual wisdom and meditation. It bridges therapy and spirituality, supporting those navigating awakening and psycho-spiritual challenges to integrate insight and experience in a steady, embodied way.
My Mission
To make body-first healing accessible, gentle and grounded for those who have spent years caring for others at the expense of themselves. Through HeartSomatics™, my teaching and community work, I invite people out of survival mode and back into connection, presence and emotional aliveness. My mission is to return to the ancient wisdom that healing begins in the body, not the mind.
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, 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, while I learned how to function highly in the world. On the surface, I appeared capable, reliable and high-achieving. Inside, I lived with anxiety, emotional numbness and a deep disconnection from who I truly was.
Early relational and developmental trauma shaped my nervous system and sense of self. Alongside what can be understood as neurodivergent traits, attachment wounds, fear of abandonment 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 and held others, often embodying the role of the wounded healer. I focused on fixing others and trying to control or change what was outside of me, hoping that safety, healing and regulation would finally arrive within my own body.
Over time, these survival strategies stopped working. I reached a point where I could no longer outrun what was being held in my nervous system. In that moment, I dropped to my knees, surrendered to something I could not yet name, and asked for help.
Support began to arrive. Sometimes it came through messy, imperfect steps into sobriety. At other times, it emerged as a quiet but steady reconnection to my own intuitive, inner guidance. A pathway back to my body, my heart, and myself.
“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 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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The 5-Step Micro Pause
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