I’m Laura (she/her), LMP, LAc., RYT, MAc.EAM

I offer support in accessing ease, presence, and rest.

I am focused on providing care for bodies impacted by emotional concerns, attention challenges, loss, complex trauma, secondary trauma, or burnout.

I have extensive experience treating orthopedic conditions, including pre- and post-surgical care, and I regularly work with people experiencing chronic pain and those with auto-immune conditions.

I also support individuals who have no particular complaints.

I often serve other caregivers: therapists, social workers, teachers, healthcare providers, organizers, service industry and other folks who attend to the collective professionally or personally.

If I am unable to help you, I will refer you to someone who can.

additional specializations

  • somatic meditation and mindfulness

  • consent

  • trauma-informed and sex-positive healthcare

  • transformative justice

  • neurodivergence

  • lgbtqia2s+ support

education

I am shaped by the wisdom of my teachers, my teacher’s teachers, and the gifts and burdens of my lineages.

partnerships

scope of practice

I practice acupuncture, massage therapy, and peer to peer support. I have extensive education in Western medicine pathologies and treatment options through my Master’s degree. I am a trained herbalist and experienced trip sitter.

I am not a licensed mental health counselor, and I do not offer talk therapy or mental health diagnoses. I am also not a primary care provider. I cannot order labs, prescribe pharmaceuticals, or make medical diagnoses.

style

Folks sometimes ask me what style of bodywork, acupuncture, or somatics I practice. I am not rigid in my approach, and I almost never use one method exclusively.

As a massage therapist, I have training in myofascial release work, deep tissue therapy, shaitsu, tui na, swedish massage, and some cranio-sacral and visceral techniques. 

As an acupuncturist, I approach treatment through Six Channel Theory, the Engaging Vitality framework, Richard Tan’s balance method, the NADA protocol, and various traditional and modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese techniques.

I’m not formally educated in any existing lineage of somatics. I understand somatic healing as an interdisciplinary field concerned with the felt experience of the emotional body - one which spans therapeutic and philosophical models and has emerging professionalization - and into which my work over the last decade dovetails neatly.

That said, I am informed by the ideas of the Generative Somatics community, as well as the works of Leon Hammer, the Strozzi Institute, Resmaa Menakem, and Peter Levine.