Our Story

Wild Path Institute was born from both discipline and disruption

From a shared longing to bring the heart back into the helping professions.

The four of us met at Norman Hall, home to the College of Education at the University of Florida. It offered us the training, licensure, and evidence-based frameworks that shaped our professional foundations.

But it also revealed the limits of a system that could feel dry, standardized, and overly manualized—a way of doing therapy that sometimes lost touch with the pulse of being human.

Our story began in the spaces in between.

Wild Path Institute grew from a shared vision — a desire to create a space where healing, learning, and community could truly meet. Colleagues and friends began dreaming together, imagining a center where therapy, education, embodiment, and ritual could weave into a living practice of transformation. That dream evolved into a clear intention: to build a place that embodies connection, wholeness, and belonging.

Together, we formed a collective that aims to honor both the scholar and the poet within.

The Humans Behind Wild Path

  • Keri: LMHC, PhD

    Keri weaves together trauma-informed modalities (IFS, SE, EMDR) to support nervous system regulation and wholehearted healing.

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  • Laurel: LMHC, PhD

    Laurel draws on a variety of therapy and wisdom traditions, including the Enneagram, to help you deepen into greater authenticity and alignment with your truest self.

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  • Conor: LMHC

    Conor carries experiences from mindfulness, spirituality, and creative arts into the mythopoetic landscape.

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  • Ramon: LMHC

    Ramon blends trauma/grief processing, spirituality, psychedelic integration, and depth work to support the transformation of suffering into wisdom and soulful living.

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  • Rachelle Sansing: ARPN, PMHNP

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Our Mission

Our mission is to cultivate a continuous path of learning that nurtures compassion and capability. Fluid and organic, our approach to healing supports nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and soul-level insight.

By integrating non-pathologizing, trauma-informed care with counseling, somatic practices, and relational experiences, we empower individuals to navigate life with authenticity and awareness. As an evolving collective, we adapt with curiosity and care, embodying radical inclusivity and emergent strategy to meet the evolving needs of our community.

Wild Path Institute is a living, breathing sanctuary for somatic education, trauma-informed care, mentorship, and community practice — a place where people come to remember their innate wholeness and walk their own wild path toward healing.

What we believe in

  • Depth

    We create rich, meaningful experiences that move beneath surface-level wellness into real inner work — making the unconscious conscious and cultivating true emotional and spiritual depth.

  • Belonging

    Wild Path Institute is designed to feel welcoming, inclusive, and human — a space where people feel seen, safe, and invited into community rather than perfection or performance.

  • Embodiment

    Our work is lived in the body, not just the mind. We weave somatic practices, nervous system education, and experiential learning to support awareness, presence, and integration beyond talk alone.

  • Integration of Science & Soul

    We bridge evidence-based psychology with ritual, spirituality, and mythopoetic practice — holding both rigor and intuition in a grounded container for deep, sustainable transformation.

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