Our Team

Rachel began her work with eating disorders in Residential, PHP and IOP treatment programs. There she developed the Embodying Recovery group therapy protocol which forms the basis for the EMBODIED RECOVERY for EATING DISORDERS (ERED) treatment model. She provided program development, training and supervision for the implementation of the ERED model to enhance the effectiveness of current best practices, such as DBT, Interpersonal Process, ACT groups. She also developed the Body Wisdom group protocol, an alternative to the traditional body-image group, which focuses on enhancing the mind-body relationship through mindful experience of and through the body.

She has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing and maintaining psychological and physical health. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel specializes in working with people exploring recovery from trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.

She currently serves as a consultant for Integrative Listening Systems/Unyte to support innovative training methods for Safe and Sound Protocol. In her role as a therapist, educator, and workshop facilitator, she brings her creativity and deep respect for the collective archetypes that are part of a universal embodied consciousness. She believes that embodiment is a journey of returning to wholeness and our authentic expression of ourselves. And that our emotions, relational templates, body narrative, and energy systems hold the embodied consciousness of our personal, intergenerational, and collective wounding as well as our innate capacity for resilience.

Paula offers Safe and Sound Protocol experiential groups for the Embodied Recovery Institute

Annie’s practice is rooted in a foundational belief in the inherent worthiness of all bodies. She centers weight inclusive, social justice oriented, and trauma informed frameworks in her approach to eating disorder care and recovery.  She is passionate about working with clients from a “bottom up” approach, centering and supporting the wisdom of the body and its innate capacity for healing.

Bob is a co-founder of Kinesthetic Learning Center in Durham, NC and has been on faculty teaching and coordinating the BMC Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Practitioner certification programs since 2007. He is coordinator of SME courses for Esprit en Mouvement in Montreal, Canada, Co-director of the SME program in Taitung, Taiwan, and faculty for the BMC Yoga Immersion Series. He teaches Embryology Qigong and other systems of qigong online.

Bob served on NCBTMB committees and the Board from 1992 – 2007. He is an NCBTMB Approved Continuing Education Provider #1372.

Lauren’s passion lies in helping people to become empowered; achieving balance and fulfillment in their lives. She believes in a trauma-informed, somatically oriented and client-centered approach and works intuitively; blending talk therapy with art therapy techniques and somatic practices.

After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography & Imaging from New York University, Lauren worked for two years in photo editing for various magazines. She found herself yearning to work more directly with people, in order to have a meaningful impact on the world. This led her to decide to leave the corporate world and pursue her Masters degree in Art Therapy from the School of Visual Arts.

Lauren has since led art therapy groups and coordinated programs at several treatment centers. Lauren has been working in private practice since 2012, and in 2015 left her post as Program Coordinator at Balance eating disorder treatment center to dedicate herself fully to this practice.

Along the way, Lauren has continued to follow her own course of personal growth, empowerment and spiritual healing. She is ever grateful for all of the guides, teachers and healers who have illuminated her path.