About The Simplest Self
Our practice is dedicated to helping you cultivate a sense of safety in your body so you can move through life with more ease, connection, and empowerment.
We offer a compassionate and curious space to explore the patterns that shape your experience, using both top-down and bottom-up approaches.
OUR APPROACH
Through our work together, you will:
✔ Deepen your connection to yourself
✔ Develop tools for emotional regulation
✔ Begin to understand that your responses and experiences make sense
✔ Move forward with greater self-trust and clarity
We don’t force change—we support a gentle, embodied process that honors your unique experiences. Whether you're seeking nervous system regulation, relational healing, or deeper self-understanding, we work collaboratively to help you reconnect, regulate, and reclaim a sense of trust in yourself and your life.
Healing at Your Own Pace
At The Simplest Self, we believe that healing is not about fixing—it's about understanding, reconnecting, and expanding your capacity for presence, connection, and self-trust. Our approach integrates top-down and bottom-up modalities, meaning we work with both thought patterns and nervous system responses to create lasting change.
(If you enjoy a good deep dive…)
Trauma is not just about what happened—it’s about how it lives in the body. We focus on nervous system regulation, helping you shift out of survival responses and increase your ability to be with emotions, sensations, and connection at a pace that feels safe.
NARM explores how early relational and developmental wounds shape present-day patterns of connection and self-perception. Instead of focusing on the past, we work with the survival strategies that formed in response to it—helping you develop more agency, self-compassion, and deeper connection to yourself and others.
The body holds the stories of our past. Somatic work helps you tune into body-based patterns, sensations, and nervous system states to gently release stored tension, regulate emotions, and cultivate a sense of ease and safety within yourself.
Our early relationships shape how we experience safety, trust, and connection. This lens helps untangle patterns like people-pleasing, avoidance, fear of intimacy, or relational anxiety—not just through insight, but by shifting how you experience relationships from the inside out.
We all have different parts of ourselves—some protective, some wounded, some wise. IFS helps us understand these inner dynamics with curiosity, so you can move from inner conflict toward integration and self-compassion.
Unconscious patterns and past experiences influence how we show up today. This approach allows us to explore how past relationships, unprocessed emotions, and deeply held beliefs shape your present experiences, offering insight and new possibilities.
You are not broken—your patterns make sense. Through a strengths-based lens, we reframe self-judgment into curiosity, recognizing that survival adaptations come from deep wisdom. Our goal is to help you build a more compassionate, empowered relationship with yourself.
Trauma-Informed & Nervous System Regulation
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Somatic Experiencing® Therapy
Attachment & Relational Depth Work
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work
Psychodynamic & Meaning-Making Work
Strengths-Based & Self-Compassion Lens
Here are the core lenses that shape our work:
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Trauma is not just about what happened—it’s about how it lives in the body. We focus on nervous system regulation, helping you shift out of survival responses and increase your ability to be with emotions, sensations, and connection at a pace that feels safe.
NARM explores how early relational and developmental wounds shape present-day patterns of connection and self-perception. Instead of focusing on the past, we work with the survival strategies that formed in response to it—helping you develop more agency, self-compassion, and deeper connection to yourself and others.
The body holds the stories of our past. Somatic work helps you tune into body-based patterns, sensations, and nervous system states to gently release stored tension, regulate emotions, and cultivate a sense of ease and safety within yourself.
Our early relationships shape how we experience safety, trust, and connection. This lens helps untangle patterns like people-pleasing, avoidance, fear of intimacy, or relational anxiety—not just through insight, but by shifting how you experience relationships from the inside out.
We all have different parts of ourselves—some protective, some wounded, some wise. IFS helps us understand these inner dynamics with curiosity, so you can move from inner conflict toward integration and self-compassion.
Unconscious patterns and past experiences influence how we show up today. This approach allows us to explore how past relationships, unprocessed emotions, and deeply held beliefs shape your present experiences, offering insight and new possibilities.
You are not broken—your patterns make sense. Through a strengths-based lens, we reframe self-judgment into curiosity, recognizing that survival adaptations come from deep wisdom. Our goal is to help you build a more compassionate, empowered relationship with yourself.
Trauma-Informed & Nervous System Regulation
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Somatic Experiencing® Therapy
Attachment & Relational Depth Work
Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work
Psychodynamic & Meaning-Making Work
Strengths-Based & Self-Compassion Lens
Hi! I’m Lauren, founder of The Simplest Self.
For much of my life, I wanted to run away—from myself, my pain, and the patterns I developed to cope. As a survivor of childhood SA, I carried deep shame and self-hate, numbing myself in any way I could just to get through.
But even in the pain, something in me wanted more. I wanted to feel calm. I wanted to feel joy. I simply wanted to feel.
I came to understand that disconnecting from my body was how I survived. The ways I coped made sense. And when I began the process of reconnecting with myself, it wasn’t easy—it felt unsafe at first. But over time, learning to regulate my nervous system, move through big emotions, and rebuild trust in myself and others changed everything.
That’s why I do this work. I know firsthand that healing isn’t about forcing change—it’s about understanding, reconnecting, and expanding what feels possible.
At The Simplest Self, our mission is to help you feel safe in your body so you can feel empowered in your life. We support you in relearning your relationship to past survival strategies, so you can step into more connection, ease, and self-trust.
And I don’t do this work alone. The Simplest Self has grown into a team of dedicated practitioners who share the same commitment to helping others feel safe, connected, and empowered. Because as I always say, healing happens in community.
We do this work because we believe in it—not just in theory, but in practice.
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