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The Self-Love “Diet”

Want to cultivate more love, joy, and abundance in your life?  Check out my Self-Love Diet! Four recommended reads for 2022 that share deep wisdom to help you lay out a path for:  Loving your body  Embracing imperfections and change  Releasing old patterns that no longer serve you  Growing deeper relationships with yourself and others…

Moms Mothering Moms: A Virtual Book Club for Finding You Again

Join perinatal therapist and Avalon Healer Lara Schoen, LMSW for a twice-monthly virtual book club to share laugher, tears, and explore the ups and downs of motherhood following Lisa Marchiano’s new book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. Each meeting will focus on themes discussed in each chapter of the book. Open to all who identify…

My Training & Comittment to Lifelong Learning

Formal Education Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of California, San DiegoEmphasis in Neuroscience and Behavior. Theatre Minor.Internships at the Adolescent Brain Imaging Project Youth at Risk study and Center for Human Development Pediatric Longitudinal Neurocognition and Genetics Study. Master of Social Work from San Diego State UniversityInternships at Rady Children’s Hospital Outpatient…

A call to action – normalize not penalize mental health care for all healthcare workers.

A call to action – normalize not penalize mental health care for all healthcare workers – especially for birth workers! Childbirth is a seminal time where the birthing person needs support, care, and compassion to have a positive birth experience. Caring for pregnant people can be psychologically taxing. Not all births end in a healthy…

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About Me

Hi, I’m Lara, a licensed psychotherapist passionate about reproductive mental health, empowered birth, and nature therapy. I can’t wait to meet you! Read more

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