Hi, I'm Laurel.
People tell me they feel calmer just sitting with me.
I take that as the highest compliment, because for most of my life I felt anything but calm.
Here's who I am, how I got here, and why this work matters so much to me.
The shy kid who noticed everything
Growing up, I never quite fit. I was bullied, I was shy, and walking into a room where I didn't know anyone made my stomach drop. So I watched. I learned to notice what other people missed, and how to blend in when I needed to.
I carried that into adulthood as a very loud inner critic. I compared myself to everyone and never measured up to my own impossible standards. I didn't want to live the way I was expected to, so I figured something must be wrong with me.
It took me years to understand that my sensitivity was never the problem. It's the reason I can feel what's happening in a room, and the reason people trust me with the things they've never said out loud.
The life that looked fine
I spent my twenties building a career in advertising. It never felt like the right fit. I was overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated, and I knew I was meant for something with more purpose. Starting over felt impossible, so I coped with parties and shopping I couldn't really afford.
Then I lost my partner of four years. The pressure of what it meant to be a "successful man" took his life, and the way we were living didn't help.
The race to perform and succeed at any cost was wearing me down, and it had taken the man I loved.
At 29, I walked away and left the US.
What I learned far from home
I spent the next eight years traveling, freelancing and questioning every rule I'd been taught about how a life should look. From the other side of the world, I could finally see the culture I'd come from.
We're taught to do everything alone. We learn that showing emotion is weakness, and to push our bodies past every signal that says rest or eat. That way of living cuts us off from each other, from our own bodies, and from the earth that holds us.
A new country gave me space to breathe. The deeper change came when I learned to calm my own nervous system, to feel my grief instead of outrunning it, and to rewrite the stories I'd carried since I was that shy kid. I learned to say hard things with love, and I learned how to repair.
Today I strike up conversations with strangers, sometimes in Spanish. I can feel burnout coming and change course before it takes over. And for the first time in my life, I really like who I am.
Rewilding is coming home to your instincts: the parts of you that were conditioned out of you before you were old enough to choose.
When land is rewilded, people stop forcing it to be something it isn't, and the life that belongs there comes back on its own. People work the same way. Your playfulness, your voice, your desire and your body's sense of when to rest are still there, underneath everything you were told to be.
Nobody should have to hold it all alone
This year I sat down with people across the Americas and Europe who had lived through burnout. Their stories sounded a lot like mine. Most had pushed for years until their body made them stop. When I asked what they loved as kids, nearly all of them described playing outside, exploring and making things, and most said those parts of them had gone quiet.
I want to help you get those parts back.
I'm not afraid of the hard places. I've known depression, grief and pain, and the only way through them I've found is to feel them, with someone steady beside you. I'll go there with you.
Everything I offer comes back to the same thing: helping you feel safe enough to be fully yourself.
Rewilding Coaching
Four months to calm your nervous system, release what you've been carrying, and stop living in survival mode.
The Rewilding PathRewilding Relationships
Three months to find your voice, wake up your desire, and feel safe being yourself with someone.
Relationship CoachingHypnotherapy
Gentle, focused sessions that reach your subconscious mind, where the habits and old stories that willpower can't shift take root.
Hypnotherapy
Where I come most alive
- Leading workshops, ceremonies and guided journeys. Holding space for a room full of people lights me up like nothing else.
- Sitting with one person and watching them come back to themselves.
- Hosting. I love creating a warm space, cooking for people, and thinking of every little comfort so everyone can relax.
- Making and serving cacao, and nerding out about it with anyone who'll listen.
- Slow mornings with morning pages, cacao, movement and meditation.
- Dancing, singing, long hikes and deep conversations.
Certified, supervised and deeply practiced
Certified Well-Being Coach
Anthropedia Foundation, 2022
Certified Hypnotherapist
The Black Lotus Academy, 2024
Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
The Black Lotus Academy, 2024
Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner
The Black Lotus Academy, 2024
1,000-Hour Master Practitioner of Ceremonial Cacao
The Black Lotus Academy, 2024
Every one of my certifications was a year-long, supervised training.
If any of this felt familiar
A free clarity call is 30 minutes to talk about where you are and what you're longing for. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help, and if I'm not the right fit, I'll point you toward what might.