i help women of color
break karmic patterns &
heal generational trauma
I am currently booked through Fall 2025 for Past Life Journeys and Inner Child Healing Intensives.
The Dark Femme Collective and Your Little Side Hustle Mentorship Program are currently in session.
Visit the Dark Femme Collective Library to access recordings of my shadow work sessions to get introduced to my work and to receive personal healing until my calendar opens for session.
Please check back for session availability in September 2025 or get on my email list to receive news and updates.
You’re probably feeling the weight of carrying your family’s trauma.
You feel so heavy and tense with that responsibility.
You learned to keep yourself silent around family members out of fear of being wrong - or worse - being seen.
To the point where you almost can’t see yourself.
There’s a part of you that’s ready to burst. And I mean in a big way.
But you don’t feel mature enough to address your family on their behaviors and how it makes you feel.
Sure, you walk and talk like an adult but for some reason you don’t actually feel like an adult.
You still feel like a child. A younger version of yourself that no one trusted, believed in or listened to . . .
You wish you could trust yourself. You wish you could depend on yourself.
You wish you would just grow up already. You wish you could heal.
I’m here to help you do that.
Welcome,
My name is Lauren (she/her)
but you can call me Manang.
I am a licensed trauma therapist and shadow work coach clinically trained in EMDR, Brainspotting and Transpersonal Psychology. You can visit my therapy website here.
In this space, I offer decolonized healing services for 1st & 2nd Generation Filipino Americans living in the U.S. who want an alternative solution to their mental health needs.
I’m a therapist but this page isn’t for traditional talk therapy.
What I have to offer goes a lot deeper than the Western medical model.
My Shadow Work coaching is an “evidence based practice” that is rooted in the Filipino culture and a spiritual responsibility given to me by the Universe and my ancestors.
If you’ve been looking for a healing space that will help you tend to your inner child and the past versions of yourself in order to heal the generational trauma in your family, I’m here to guide you.
<3 Manang Lauren
My approach
to healing:
My healing sessions are intended to help you build the emotional capacity to face traumatic childhood experiences and dysfunctional family dynamics so that you can feel more at peace with your adult self.
I focus on your unique childhood experiences as a Filipino American who was either born in the Philippines and now lives in the U.S. or was born and raised in the United States by Filipino parents.
Many of my clients report the following childhood experiences that might be similar to yours:
Emotional Neglect, the experience of being isolated and left alone as a child to figure out your own emotions.
Your parents never talked about their own emotions or weren’t present enough to sit with yours. Any large or heavy emotional experiences were ignored, suppressed and avoided at all costs.
Physical or sexual abuse, the experience of being violated, punished or coerced into doing something that caused harm to your physical body.
Your parents disciplined you by spanking, hitting, yelling or throwing things at you. They may have perpetrated or failed to protect you from sexual violence.
Early exposure to alcohol or drug use; sexual content or activities; domestic, community and/or global violence.
Your parents were exposed to and assimilated into the shadows of White American culture and used internalized colonial strategies to cope with the stressors of immigrating to and raising children in a foreign country.
Distant childhood memories of being happy and connecting with adults who showed them kindness, courage and inspired them to investigate their Filipino ancestry and culture.
Does this hit home for you?
Why is doing
Shadow Work
with me different from
traditional talk therapy?
While I am able to rely heavily on my education and professional experience as a mental health clinician, I do not diagnose my coaching clients with a mental health disorder.
I do not believe in pathologizing a person for the way the react to abuse and neglect.
I abide by the same professional standards of care in terms of confidentiality, safety issues and personal ethics without having to adjust or minimize my cultural values as a Filipina American, a feminist and a single mother.
In my house, we are super spiritual, believe in karma and practice ancestral medicine.
My offerings are Shadow Work coaching through Inner Child Healing Intensives & Past Life Regression Journeys guided by Filipino psychology and spirituality.
These healing sessions are meant to reconnect you to a place in your subconscious mind where you’ll find:
hidden power from your childhood to become the type of adult your younger self needs or
wisdom from a past life to help you better understand the relationships and generational patterns that you struggle with in this life
Our sessions are about releasing from the depths of your soul, not skimming the surface. I don’t just talk to you about your problems.
I take you to the root of them and we heal from there.
Are you ready to let go?
CLIENT
TESTIMONIALS
“I love that Manang Lauren is the embodiment of the dark femme, bringing all the professional & empirical knowledge with her to help us all heal with empathy without dimming whatever lights her up. It's so refreshing to be in a circle with someone who looks like me who embraces the human experience & knows how to nourish all parts of her body (yay for the love of the green, sensual movement, & weight training). That unapologetic authenticity allows me to trust her as my guide in doing shadow work.”
-Karla R. (Dark Femme Collective Member + Inner Child Healing & Past Life Regression Client
It was a beautifully healing first session. Manang Lauren opened up about herself and experience in mental and spiritual health, which I think comforted everyone into being vulnerable. Manang Lauren is an excellent facilitator, and, she received us all with warm, calm energy. I felt seen and cared for during the entire experience.
- Katrina S. (Dark Femme Collective Member)
