for the early years and everyone in them…
Nurture is a whole practice.
Supporting the connection between you, your child, and yourself.
Nobody arrives at parenting knowing how, and nobody does it evenly. What grows a child’s resilience is not a flawless parent, it is the returning: the ordinary moments of noticing, responding, and repairing. Much of the practice is quieting the outside voices enough to hear your own, because nurture lives in you, not in the advice arriving from everywhere else.
We teach as we go. Through Nurture Neuroscience®, you learn how your baby's brain is built and how your own nervous system shapes the room, so guidance arrives as understanding rather than instruction. High nurture, no shame, always.
Perinatal therapy, child-parent therapy, and mother circles, woven with expressive arts, infant mental health education, and nervous-system-informed care. Boulder, CO + virtual.
making nurture feel natural again
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making nurture feel natural again 〰️
Come in wherever you are on the path.
there is no wrong time to begin…
Pregnancy, birth, the fourth trimester, the first words, the first day of school. Each phase asks something different of you, and there is no wrong moment to reach out. Some families come during pregnancy, some when a four-year-old's big feelings take over the house, some years after a birth that still sits heavy. Wherever you are on the path, that is where we begin.
How we work together
choose a path that sounds like you…
Perinatal Therapy
One-on-one trauma-informed support through pregnancy, postpartum and the transformation of becoming a mother. Through talk and expressive arts, we tend your nervous system, process your birth experience, and meet anxiety or depression with care, building a steadiness you can carry home to your little one.
Young Child-Parent Therapy
Expressive arts therapy for little ones, three through eight, and their caregivers. Play, art, movement, and imagination, because some children speak in these languages long before words. Therapy works to strengthen the connection between you two.
Mother Circles
Small welcoming gatherings where science meets the soul of motherhood. Learn, make and be truly held alongside other mamas, because the village was never optional. Little ones are always welcome.
when words fall short…
The art speaks.
We work with parents, mamas and children using expressive arts, like paint, clay, movement, writing, and play to let the senses tell the story. Once something exists outside of you, you can look at it, hold it, and begin to change your relationship to it.
The research supports it. Across twenty-one studies of more than 2,800 pregnant and postpartum women, art-based therapy meaningfully reduced anxiety and depression. For children, art and play are one way they may already communicate, so we try to meet them there.
No art experience needed. Nothing has to look ‘good.’ What matters is how it feels to make it.
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Let the senses speak
Color, texture, and motion carry what language cannot hold yet.
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Soothe the system
Making settles the body and a settled body is where healing starts.
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Make meaning
Give shape to a season, and a hard story can be told in a new way.
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Restore aliveness
Play, freedom returns. Risk feels possible again. You come back to yourself.
what we practice…
Three things we hold to.
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What supports a child’s growth and develpoment is not a flawless parent. It is the returning again and again, to nurture and connect, and the repair made when things go sideways. We work on the relationship, not the performance.
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Regulation over striving
Connection over perfection
We start with the nervous system, yours and your child’s, because a settled body can do what an exhausted body cannot. Less trying harder, more about coming back to steady.
III.
Good enough is enough
Not a consolation prize. A clinical standard. Ordinary, imperfect, repeated care is what grows a child’s resilience and steadies a family, and it is already within your reach.
What we will never do here.
our promise
Judgement about feeding choices
Perfect parent standards
One-size-fits-all advice
Sleep method debates
Rushing your story
Shame about unwanted thoughts
a soft place to land.
Fall gatherings.
In-person in Boulder, CO
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Come learn about perinatal mental health, how nurture shapes your little one’s brain and how to build a parenting approach that feels regulating and nurturing.
at Radiant Roots Collective, Boulder, CO
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This is a nurturing support circle for mamas navigating breastfeeding and feeding journeys beyond the first year.
This gathering is a space for connection, education, encouragement, and community. All feeding journeys are welcome.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcblh7XuEI_hZc2l9mgI_Af66ieHC7cTLiqNMKErLBP6dh7g/formResponse?pli=1
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Come learn about perinatal mental health, how nurture shapes your little one’s brain and how to build a parenting approach that feels regulating and nurturing.
Location TBD.
Hi, I’m Lara…
A therapist, artist, yogini and a mama in your corner.
I help parents remember what culture made them forget: how to nurture without shame and without perfection. I center babies and children as wise participants in the family system. My work weaves expressive arts therapy, yoga and Nurture Neuroscience® into support that meets your family where you are at.
MA
LPC
IMH-E®
RYT
PERINATAL SPECIALIST
ATR-BC®
here are some kind words from colleagues…
“Lara is a compassionate child therapist and parent coach specializing in helping children overcome anxiety, fear, and emotional challenges. She empowers parents with tools to build trust, confidence, and positive connections with their children.”
Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, Founder of Healing Pathways, LLC
“Lara has a calming presence. She is an amazing mom and empowering therapist. Lara has a lot of experience in leadership and collaboration. Many families will greatly benefit from her expertise!”
Janis Wille, MA, LPC, ATR, RYT - Founder of Creative Conscious Connections
“Lara is a beam of light connected to such a beautiful heart. She is an accomplished and skillful art therapist, as well as an impactful president of the Colorado Art Therapy Association. The work Lara puts into the world resounds with intelligence, compassion, experience, and care. She has my highest recommendation.”
Kate King, LPC, ATR-BC - Founder of The Radiant Life Project
“It has been a delight to work with Lara through Couple Space Boulder. She is extremely warm, caring, fun, and creative in her role with outreach as well as with clients. She is very skillful in using the Gottman Institutes' Emotion Coaching with parents.”
Sharla Macy, LMFT - Founder of Couple Space Boulder
Come say hello.
Hours
Tuesday-Friday, 9am-12pm, Thurs 3-7pm
Phone
(720) 491-1531
Address
3825 Iris Avenue Boulder, CO 80301 Suite 150e