Healing Perspectives | Coaching, Continuing Education & Consultation

Welcome!

We're Lara and Emilee

We believe lifelong learning, healing and hope are all interconnected.

As proud licensed clinical social workers, we use our understanding of grief, loss, trauma and human development to expand perspectives and promote healing in a broken-hearted world!

Our deep passion for teaching guides our coaching and courses. Whether you are a mental health professional or someone committed to healing, we want to help you expand wisdom, skills, and confidence in the pursuit of self-led work and a vibrant, meaning filled life.

What we offer

Lean into wisdom with services that support learning and healing at every stage of your journey.

Grief and IFS Coaching– open to all!

We offer IFS and grief coaching that teaches practical coping skills to manage loss, trauma, and overwhelm, helping you build resilience and emotional balance.

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Continuing Education for Professionals

Elevate your expertise with CEU classes and IFS trainings to prevent burnout, deepen skills, and earn accredited credits.

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Professional Consultation & Supervision

We provide individual and group consultation and supervision for mental health professionals, including IFS consultation to support licensure, with expert guidance rooted in IFS and grief-informed care.

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HAPPENING THIS FALL

Meaningful Grief Retreat

The Meaningful Grief Retreat is an immersive 3-night / 2.5-day experience designed to support healing, reflection, and growth after loss. Using a meaning-centered, trauma-informed approach, participants explore grief through creativity, movement, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practices.

This retreat offers a balance of guided experiential activities, group reflection, and skill-building exercises, helping participants reconnect with themselves, their grieving parts, and their capacity for self-compassion.

Whether you are a helping professional seeking to deepen your understanding of grief, or someone navigating personal loss, you will leave with practical tools, meaningful insights, and renewed hope for your path forward.

Upcoming Retreat: October 20–23, 2026 at St. Raphaela Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

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“After my husband died, I did not want to be a “stuck” grieving mom to my adult children. I wanted to process and deal with my grief in a productive way and to model how to continue to live while dealing with our family’s tremendous loss. The IFS model has worked well for me, allowing me to feel big emotions and to develop a stronger understanding of who I am. While I still grieve, I feel lighter and believe I maintain a healthy outlook on my life moving forward.“

- IFS Coaching Client

“You create a space where learning feels alive.”

- Foundations of Grief Participant

“Learning from someone so deeply knowledgeable, attuned, thoughtful, and generous is rare.”

- Foundations of Grief Participant

"I highly recommend participating in one of Lara's classes. She is engaging, brings forth up to date grief and trauma theory, shares wonderful resources, and included energizing activities and interventions. She is overall a wonderful presenter and teacher. You know you have a quality instructor when you leave with your brain buzzing and your energy lifted!"

–Continuing Education Participant

“Your willingness to be real and to teach grief not just as a concept but as something lived is what makes your work so powerful.”

- Foundations of Grief Participant

“Your teaching has a way of making complex ideas feel accessible without ever losing their depth.”

- Foundations of Grief Participant