Dr. Laura is a scientist, veteran, teacher, healer, and guide whose life path has always merged intellect with inner exploration. She earned her B.S. in Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle before her 21st birthday and went on to complete both a Master’s in Teaching and a Ph.D. in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Washington University, where her research focused on the hydrothermal systems of Mars and their potential for life.

After serving more than six years as a U.S. Naval Officer — teaching nuclear physics and advanced mathematics — she brought her gifts to the classroom as a high school teacher for nearly a decade. Alongside her scientific and educational work, she pursued extensive spiritual training, studying with a Lakota Medicine Man, completing full Wiccan studies, becoming a Reiki Master/Teacher in 2003, and later a Shamanic Reiki Master in 2014.

Over time, a deep interest in meditation and states of consciousness became a central thread in her work — not as a technique, but as a lived practice. Through years of immersive study, retreat-based training, and personal inquiry, Dr. Laura has explored how sustained meditation reshapes perception, regulates the nervous system, and opens access to coherence, insight, and inner stability.

Her integrative path continued with certifications as a Health Coach (2015), Life Coach, and Meditation Instructor, allowing her to bridge contemplative practice with practical, real-world application. Today, Dr. Laura draws on this extraordinary blend of science, service, and spiritual discipline to help clients release old patterns, reconnect with their inner intelligence, and step into lives that feel aligned, grounded, and deeply their own.

Lance Garland, MA, is a licensed professional counselor and hypnotherapist whose professional path began in the field of exercise physiology. After earning his degree in Exercise Science from the University of Missouri, he worked in cardiac rehabilitation and stress-testing laboratories, gaining firsthand experience with how chronic stress, trauma, and emotional patterns affect physical health.

While this work was valuable, Lance recognized that many people needed deeper support than physiology alone could provide. He became a certified hypnotherapist, helping clients change long-standing habits and conditions—yet again felt drawn to address the roots of distress more directly.

That search led him back to graduate school in 2005 to study counseling. After completing his degree and clinical training, Lance became licensed in 2009 and has since spent over 17 years refining an integrative therapeutic approach that blends evidence-based modalities with somatic and experiential work.

Today, Lance continues to expand and refine his clinical skill set, drawing from EMDR-informed trauma treatment, clinical hypnosis, meditation, yoga, and nervous-system regulation and biofeedback practices. When clinically appropriate, dream interpretation may also be integrated into the work as a way of understanding unconscious processing, emotional patterns, and unresolved material that may not yet be fully accessible in waking awareness.

Rather than approaching dreams symbolically or abstractly, Lance views them as meaningful expressions of the mind–body system. Dreams can offer insight into how the nervous system is organizing experience, often revealing themes that support clarity, integration, and therapeutic forward movement. This work is always collaborative, grounded, and oriented toward practical understanding rather than speculation.

Lance’s work is especially well suited for individuals dealing with PTSD, anxiety, depression, and stress-related conditions who are seeking focused, depth-oriented therapy rather than surface-level coping strategies. Clients often appreciate his calm, steady presence and his ability to bring clarity, perspective, and—when appropriate—gentle humor into the therapeutic process.

At the heart of Lance’s approach is a simple principle: insight alone is not enough. Lasting change happens through integration—when understanding is paired with nervous-system regulation, embodied awareness, and practical application in daily life.