Board Member Spotlight

Lindsay E. Vaughn

Our first board member spotlight features our Hutton Historian, Lindsay E. Vaughn, who first served on the NPI board from 2010 to 2014. After she took over the seat of a member who moved out of state, serving the final year of that term, she was elected to her own three-year term. During those years, Lindsay created what is now known as the Programming Committee, streamlined our educational event planning process, helped NPI events become more profitable for the organization, and authored a detailed document that would guide the actions ofall programming committee members in the years to come.

As thankful as we are for her service then, and the contributions she made, she is just as grateful for the role that NPI has played in her professional development. She states, “The people I’ve met through NPI, especially as a board member, have become not only trusted colleagues with whom I can network, refer to, and lean on for support, but in many cases, they have also become my friends. I really treasure the people I’ve met through my NPI involvement.” As we all know, being a therapist in private practice can be isolating, but Lindsay has relied on many of her connections within NPI to provide community. Furthermore, she reports that one of the highlights of her board membership was meeting Bonnie Badenoch, who presented at a spring workshop. By connecting with Bonnie while planning the event, and taking the speaker to dinner, as is the tradition after a workshop, Lindsay formed a relationship with Bonnie that led her to attend a five-day therapeutic retreat in Santa Fe, years later, hosted by Bonnie.

During her one-year term as the Hutton Historian, Lindsay will provide some historical context to the board dis cussions and also head up the committee that will nominate the next generation of NPI board members. She says that she is thrilled to be on the NPI board again, after taking some time away to focus on raising her young children and birthing and growing her new business, Hazel House Holistic Healing.

Hazel House is a local integrative center offering a variety of traditional and alternative therapies, which complement each other, and are focused on helping people resolve trauma of all kinds. Lindsay says, “Our approach is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom, and in modern science, and we have a healthy respect for both.” Through individual and group psychotherapy, integrative bodywork, neurofeedback, integrative nutrition and holistic health coaching, trauma-informed yoga, breathwork, EMDR, brainspotting, hypnotherapy, somatic and experiential therapy, intensives and retreats, and more, Hazel House is able to offer clients a well-rounded body-mind-spirit approach. They welcome referrals from other therapists whose clients need additional support or help getting unstuck in talk therapy, and they are happy to collaborate with other therapists throughout the process. All treatment plans and programs are tailored to the individual, and treatment can range from one session per month to fifteen hours per week, can be long-term or short-term, and may include any combination of services, depending on clinical needs, budget, schedule, and the wishes of the client. Lindsay encourages her colleagues to reach out to her directly regarding any potential case collaboration, by emailing healing@hazelhouse.net, and she invites you to view the Hazel House website to learn more. www.HazelHouse.net