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The place where the body returns and the soul aligns

The Truth Your Nervous System Already Knows

You don’t need more tools.
You need a place where your body stops bracing.

Transformation isn’t a breakthrough. It’s a thawing.
When the system feels safe, the story reorganizes.
When the story reorganizes, the self can finally return.

Who This Is For

This space is for you if:

✓ You’ve done the work, but something still feels missing  
✓ You’re exhausted from overgiving, performing, or holding everything together  
✓ You sense a version of yourself you haven’t yet lived  
✓ Your symptoms feel less like problems and more like messages  
✓ You’re no longer interested in coping — you’re ready to become

If that resonates, you’re not early.
You’re right on time.

The Invitation

Identity emerges in warmth, not willpower.

Stand by the fire.
Let what has been frozen begin to thaw.

Your life will reorganize from there.

Your system knows when it’s ready.
This is simply a place to begin that conversation.

“Just like the lotus, we too have the ability to rise from the mud, bloom out of the darkness, and radiate into the world.” 

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What if you are the one you have been waiting for?

I believe healing unfolds when the body feels safe enough to tell the truth, and when the individual is met with both clinical discernment and deep respect for their lived experience.

For over three decades, my work has been rooted in one essential understanding: sustainable change does not come from fixing symptoms or chasing solutions, but from restoring coherence across the nervous system, identity, and lived meaning. When these layers are addressed together, transformation becomes both grounded and lasting.

My approach integrates modern psychiatry, trauma science, somatic regulation, and depth-oriented wisdom traditions—not as separate techniques, but as a unified way of listening to the whole person. I do not compartmentalize mind, body, or spirit. I work at their intersection.

I am not the provider for the beginning of the journey. Many clinicians do excellent work supporting stabilization, coping, and early insight. My role is different.

I work with individuals who have already done much of that work—and who now sense that something deeper is asking to emerge. People who are ready to move beyond managing parts of themselves and into inhabiting a more integrated, authentic whole.

This work requires readiness, curiosity, and courage. It also requires time, trust, and a willingness to engage honestly with what arises.

When those conditions are present, healing becomes less about effort—and more about return.

At its heart, this work is about remembering who you are—beneath adaptation, beneath survival, beneath effort.

Services
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Services

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Integrative Wellness Sessions

In-Person & Virtual Appointments
with Laurie

The Hero Within Coaching

Personalized 1:1 Coaching Sessions with Todd 

Intensive Packages

3-7 Day Intensives Tailored to Meet Your Needs and Goals

Wellness Retreats

Explore self-care options in a nurturing environment.

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"The healer you have been looking for is your own courage to know and
love yourself completely."

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About Us

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Laurie

You are not here because something is wrong with you.
You are here because something in you is ready.

For over thirty years, I have worked at the intersection of psychiatry, trauma, and human development — walking alongside people who have done everything they were told would help, and still feel a quiet ache beneath it all. Not a symptom, but a signal: a deeper self that has not yet felt safe enough to emerge.

I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner by training, and a depth-oriented clinician by lived practice. My work integrates modern psychiatry, trauma science, somatic regulation, and ancestral wisdom — not as concepts, but as applied, embodied care shaped by decades of clinical experience.

Through this work, one truth has proven consistent:

The nervous system determines what becomes possible.

Until the body feels safe, the soul cannot land.
Until the soul lands, identity cannot organize.
And until identity organizes, life feels like managing parts instead of inhabiting a whole.

My work is not to fix you.
It is to hold the fire long enough for your true self to recognize it is welcome to return.

You are the one you've been waiting for.

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Todd

I believe transformation doesn’t begin with fixing what’s broken—it begins with remembering what’s already alive.

For decades, I’ve worked in spaces where hope, resilience, and imagination meet. Through cosplay and charitable outreach, I’ve spent years bringing strength and possibility to children facing illness and adversity. More recently, I co-produced and starred in Batman: Out of the Darkness, a fan-made film that tells my own hero’s journey through the lens of resilience, shadow, and return.

Today, my work lives at the intersection of coaching, story, and music.

As a Transformational Coach, I guide individuals—especially men—into deeper self-leadership, emotional integrity, and embodied growth through personalized 1:1 coaching and group work. Alongside this, I create music not as entertainment, but as a regulating force—songs designed to help people feel, integrate, and reconnect with themselves in ways words alone often can’t.

My role is not to give answers, but to help create the conditions where clarity, courage, and coherence can emerge naturally.

This work isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about reclaiming the part of you that’s been waiting to be heard.

Testimonials

“Laurie has an abundance of extensive resources which she is remarkably able to utilize almost invisibly, and the deep sensitivity to employ her gifts with focused accuracy. Laurie has powerful intuition, and the courage to follow it” 

 Aileen S.

“Personable, Intuitive, Spiritual - I would recommend Laurie’s services because the shift in your energy and perspectives will change your life for the better” 

Dylan B.

“I am very satisfied.  Laurie is trustworthy, very professional, and taught me things that typical therapy did not.  I gained so much from my time with Laurie, and truly appreciate how much she has helped me” 

Ryan M.

Laurie & Todd are the absolute BEST two people in health care and medicine that I've ever experienced!! Out of 5 stars they're a 10! They go above & beyond without hesitation. Just love them both

 Danielle R.

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Contact

725 Juniper Swamp Road
Shushan, NY 12873

Email: toddatealom@gmailcom

Phone: 518-812-6842

Fax: 518-338-0174

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