Originally from Connecticut, Lauren has made her home in Addison County since 2004. Her first backpacking trip was with her father in the White Mountains as a young girl, and that sparked her love for the forest and mountains and the freedom that comes with leaving everything else behind while being absorbed by nature. She moved to Vermont with those intentions, and while life got busy with kids and career, she still looks around with so much awe anytime she’s outside or even just gazing through a window.
Lauren thru-hiked the LT in 2019, has led backpacking trips for adolescent girls, and is a HikerBabes Ambassador for Vermont. It was on her thru hike that she decided to open her own psychiatry practice and thus named it Long Trail Psychiatry in honor of how much the Long Trail has benefited her own mental health. In addition to her practice, Lauren opened the Green Mountain Shakti wellness center in Middlebury to fulfill a dream of providing holistic mental health care to her community.
