Hello and welcome to Inspired Life Counseling! My name is Lauren (she/they) and I offer individual & couples counseling, and ceremonies & rituals. I am deeply passionate about, and have committed my life's work to the journey of personal and communal healing and transformation. ​
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​I completed my Masters of Arts in Spiritual Guidance at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in June 2016. My training includes therapeutic theories and techniques found in Transpersonal Psychology and Somatic Psychology, specifically Psychosynthesis, Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, and Jungian Dream Analysis (see my page on Dream Analysis) I also completed the Climate Psychology Certificate program at the ​California Institute of Integrative Studies in December 2024, allowing me to bring specific support for clients experiencing climate distress (see my page on Climate Psychology.) 

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"The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life." -Aurora Levins Morales

As the owner of Inspired Life Counseling, I have conducted individual and couples counseling sessions, rights of passage ceremonies, and courses on transpersonal and somatic psychology. My work history before beginning my practice included many years of nonprofit experience ranging from spiritual care in hospice to food justice and sustainable agriculture. I have also been a community organizer for over a decade; for me, internal healing work points directly to where our culture has deviated from its humanity, so the collective and the personal have never been separate in the work I do. I have a profound belief that we can find freedom from the wounds that we carry and in that freedom, bring our aliveness and creativity to building a new world together. And I believe that our ancestors and other sources of guidance are right there with us. I cherish being on this journey in my own personal life, with my community, and with my clients.

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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
​-Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver