Lara Lwin Treadaway is a somatic healing practitioner, trauma-informed coach, mediator, and group facilitator. Over the past 25 years she has trained in multiple healing modalities and group processes including somatic healing, mediation, parts work, family and systemic constellations therapy, depth psychology, and eco-facilitation. Her perspective is rooted in the universal principles of respect for our innate capacity to heal, trust in the power of an inherently wise and benevolent universe, honoring our interdependence with all life, and following the laws of nature as a guide for living. Her approach is relational, intuitive, process-oriented, and emotionally-focused.

 

Lara's passion for supporting others on their life journey stems from an early life marked by trauma; many years of depression, chronic illness, addiction, and suicidal ideation; and almost thirty years of learning how to support healing, peace, and freedom in a world filled with suffering and conflict. Her work rests on a lived understanding that, no matter what we have suffered and endured, we can work with what we have been given in ways that restore dignity and wholeness, and the more wholehearted we are in our approach to this work, the more likely we are to discover profound gifts through the alchemical process of meeting and metabolizing our pain.

 

In 2012, Lara moved from the UK to the Pacific Northwest, adopting a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity in response to the ecological crisis. She is the founder of Wild Peace Sanctuary, a regenerative land-based project on the Oregon Coast exploring ways to support balance and peace through natural reciprocity between people, animals, and land. The sanctuary provides a home to a small herd of wild equines each rescued from situations of abuse, neglect and abandonment, and is focused on regenerating habitat, supporting food security, and facilitating healing. When not with her clients, mostly Lara can be found outside, in all weathers, tending the land and the animals.