Meet Our Crew

Lauren is the founder of Inner Sanctuary as well as The Light Within Us. Lauren is a licensed mental health counselor and has been offering services through The Light Within Us for the past three years after retiring from school-based counseling. Her inspiration to open a second business, a holistic wellness center, was inspired by her recognizing the healing power of holistic wellness services, especially as supplements to clinical care. She is also on a mission to make wellness services more culturally responsible, more trauma informed, more neurodiversity affirming, and takes pride in creating loud and proud safe spaces for fellow LGBTQIA+ people.

Lauren is a neurodiversity and LGBTQIA+ affirming trauma counselor, is trained in reiki, has over 10 years of experience facilitating mindfulness and guided meditations, is trained in EFT tapping and Polyvagal Theory, and is a current yoga teacher training student at Embodied Physical Therapy. Her offerings focus on creating safety in mind, body, and spirit. She is a Capricorn and loves advocating for animal and human rights, mindful walks in nature, live music concerts, nerdy whimsical things, and her Mini Pitbull, Zuko.