Lauren is accepting new clients for somatic sessions currently. We will announce when they also open up spots for herbalism.

Lauren can see clients in person at our Zillicoa Street office in Asheville with the option to wear a mask or online and from anywhere in the world.

My name is Lauren (they/them) and I have been providing trauma focused emotional support for over a decade, been a somatic practitioner for 8 years and have been in private practice for 6 years. I approach our work together with humility, rigor, curiosity and deep integrity. 

I am not a licensed clinician or social worker. My skill sets and approach focuses on relational paths to depathologization, mending intrapersonal attachment wounds, and creating resources to act as counterweights to undesired ways of being. I work with a rigorous commitment to consent and a firm respect for the complexity of each person. I would be remiss in not mentioning that I often bring hope, curiosity, and an entrenched belief that we have what we need to move toward wholeness.

As you pull on the threads of your life and unpack what you’ve come to hold I will make a lot of space for you and listen deeply, offer attuned questions, frank reflections, and opportunities to choose what you want to process and how. I tend to listen for moments when we can build resources, access insight, or go deeper into reflection. Once we agree on this, I will bring in my skills as a practitioner and explain what we will do: somatic intervention, a parts framework, a way to build different relationship to self or the world, or other possibilities.

My lens is anti-oppressive and my approach is deeply individualized and nuanced.

Below is a list of specialities:

• Cultivating slowness & intentionality into individual and collective care

• Complex grief

• Systemic disassociation

• Seeking joy, awe & wonder in the world 

• Self-abandonment, fragmentation, & self alienation

• Trauma from adult experiences of shunning or childhood bullying

• Experiences of being betrayed

• Neurodivergence

• Chronic illness

• Existential crises

• Persistent experiences of false or conditional belonging and deep yearnings to belong as one’s authentic self

• Victims of abuse of power who have been silenced and marginalized

• Gender & sexuality

• Chronic dysregulation of the nervous system

• Individuals experiencing misogyny, homophobia, biphobia, and/or transphobia in all the complex and insidious ways our culture wields it

I am a neurodivergent, chronically ill, agender queer-dyke that lives with complex trauma and it is important to me to acknowledge this lived experience, as it informs how I move through the world as well as hold empathy and possibility with clients. 

Lauren is accepting new clients for somatic sessions currently. We will announce when they also open up spots for herbalism.

Lauren can see clients in person at our Zillicoa Street office in Asheville with the option to wear a mask or online and from anywhere in the world.

lauren@outofthewoodstherapy.com

Lauren cannot take insurance, but they can accept HSA cards for session payments if you’d like to use one.

The private pay fee is $125 per hour for sessions.