Hey, I’m Lauren!
Even as a child, I naturally understood my role in supporting others, providing encouragement, naming the things I saw, and attuning myself.
I could see patterns easily. I could understand where people were coming from. I could help someone else find clarity in a matter of minutes.
Making decisions for myself was a completely different story.
I spent years collecting opinions before making a move. I trusted other people to know what was best for me more than I trusted myself.
I could tell you exactly what my friends should do.
When it came to my own life, I'd freeze, fawn, and flee.
I'm also a certified occupational therapist, which means I've spent the last several years helping children and families better understand regulation, sensory processing, emotional awareness, and how to participate more fully in their lives.
What I didn't realize was that I was learning those lessons for myself, too.
The biggest shift in my life came when I realized I couldn't think my way into trusting myself.
Today, my work combines clinical understanding, lived experience, deep curiosity, and a genuine love for helping people reconnect with themselves.
I don't have all the answers.
But I am very good at helping people hear their own.
My Specialties
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Exploring the relationship between sensory processing, emotional experiences, and the ways our bodies communicate safety, overwhelm, and need.
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Supporting ADHD, autism, sensory differences, and the unique ways people experience and move through the world.
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Getting curious about the patterns we develop to stay connected, belong, and create safety, and how those patterns can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves.
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Helping people who have spent years living in their heads, second-guessing themselves, or relying on everyone else's opinions begin listening to their own signals again.
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Looking beyond labels and asking what behaviors, reactions, or patterns might be communicating.
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Helping parents make sense of regulation, sensory processing, and the emotional experiences sitting underneath behavior.
My Values
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I bring clinical understanding, lived experience, and an outside perspective. But I don't believe I know your experience better than you do.
I'm not here to hand you answers.
I'm here to help you hear your own.
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I think healing can get really serious.
And while there is space for grief, overwhelm, and hard things, I also believe in joy, creativity, connection, laughter, and making room for the weird parts of ourselves.
Life isn't meant to be spent only analyzing ourselves.
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We're incredibly good at adapting.
Sometimes those adaptations help us survive, belong, and create safety. I don't believe they need to be judged or rushed away. I think they deserve to be understood with compassion and curiosity.
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I don't believe healing comes from the perfect routine or the right strategy. I believe in slowing down, noticing patterns, asking better questions, and allowing understanding to unfold over time.
I've always been someone people came to.
Even as a kid, I could see patterns easily. I could understand where people were coming from. I could help other people find clarity, sometimes in a matter of minutes.
My own life was a different story.
I spent years looking outside of myself for answers. I trusted other people's opinions more than my own. I became really good at reading the room, anticipating needs, and keeping the storms calm. What I didn't realize was how disconnected I had become from my own signals in the process.
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Becoming an occupational therapist gave me language for things I had always sensed.
Over the last five years, I've had the privilege of supporting hundreds of neurodivergent children and their families around sensory processing, emotional regulation, and understanding the "why" beneath behavior.
At the same time, I was learning those lessons for myself.
Through my own experiences with fear, self-doubt, and living mostly in my head, I began to understand how brilliantly we adapt. I stopped trying to think my way into trust and became curious about what my body had been communicating all along.
Somewhere between clinical experience and lived experience, my perspective began to shift.
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The Growth Stage:
My Journey
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The Beginning:
The Vision:
I don't believe we're meant to spend our lives trying to outsmart ourselves.
I envision spaces where sensitivity isn't something to overcome, where behavior is met with curiosity, and where people are given permission to understand themselves with a little more compassion.
My hope is to create work that bridges clinical understanding with lived experience. Spaces that invite people to slow down, ask better questions, and rebuild trust in themselves.
And if we happen to laugh, be weird, make art, spend time outside, or remember parts of ourselves we've forgotten along the way, I think that's pretty beautiful too.
Book your free 30-minute call to connect, share your goals, and see how we can support your journey together.