About Me & My Big Why

Curious but feel foggy or scattered and can't pinpoint who or what threw a wrench in your life plans? No worries.  We start at whatever entry-point feels natural. It's my job to guide you there.

Here are some examples from clients explaining how I guided them into the transformational flow even when they weren’t totally in the know.

Sometimes 1 session was enough to uproot a deep pattern and we ended up covering a lot of ground. Other times, one domain needed our attention and focus from beginning to end.

"Loraine is the real deal, a one-of-a-kind, true healer. She is immensely gifted and overall just radiates with caring energy. As a writer working on a memoir about loss, trauma and transformation, Loraine and her Soul Authority coaching were instrumental in helping me to clearly see old wounds and patterns and to overcome writer’s block. I was able to write from a more grounded, authentic, and empowered place so that my memoir can truly help others know they are not alone. I was also able to deepen my own healing and personal growth journey along the way. 

To say that she has saved my life in many ways is an understatement. As she would say, she helped me tap into my own abilities to not only save myself but move in energetic upward shifts toward positivity, power, peace and happiness, fulfillment in life, work and all relationships in ways that I could never have imagined."

Sharline Chiang, MS, Writer, Editor, Publicist, Podcast Co-Host - Democracy in Color

"Loraine is a drummer on a dense trail clearing the way for others to safely follow with courage and relief. She is someone I fully trust. She is an exceptionally wise and an extremely effective coach and her international background enriches and grounds her guidance in an integrative and holistic worldview. 

Personally, I love that her gifts go beyond the usual coaching focused on a single issue  - e.g., a relationship, career, health, or spiritual – and that she brings multidimensional insight and a rich and practical toolkit for unraveling underlying patterns. This creates transformative and deeply healing mind shifts for navigating life’s landscape with a truer connection and grounding within my authentic self and inner wisdom."

Kate Vogt, Yogic philosophy Teacher and Author of Mala of the Heart -108 Sacred Poems

 "Loraine’s soul authority framework has allowed me to find the courage to identify with my true feelings and personhood by beginning with habits that I didn’t realize I used to make myself palatable to those around me. Loraine helped me identify small habits that I used to hide myself, such as the way that I used  “But I don’t know” as filler and ‘soft landing’ for my opinions and feelings. 

From here, I was able to take action and intentionally take a stand for myself with a small shift in word choice from working to omitting “I don’t know” when I would share my experience or problems. It transformed the way I think about myself because I didn’t realize how this seemingly unconscious word choice stems from a desire to be agreeable. 

These small habits we’ve turned around have allowed me to show up as the confident person who has opinions and feelings that matter and are worth standing behind.

It's amazing that one bold baby step started to unwind a whole spiral of notable shifts of change and transformation in my relationships with my family of origin, with friends and my mentor, around career self-advocacy and development, in the dating scene, and around self care in terms of my sleeping and eating patterns."  

UCB Graduate student, Biology PhD candidate

 "Cultivating a vibrant tree sanctuary with spirit guides and ancestors has helped me to navigate some significant life changes with clarity, grace, and peace, pertaining to a very tumultuous romantic relationship and difficult patterns with family members. I also got clearer on my soul authority, purpose, and understanding of power, thanks to my tree and animal guides, which enhanced my effectiveness as a leader in the boardroom, at networking events or job talks, during team meetings or in writing. I feel even more in my integrity and in greater service to the global community without compromising connection to myself and my inner guidance.” 

Alyssa Newman, Responsible Minerals Sourcing manager, Film Producer and Director, and Board Member of Renewable Energy & Social Justice Nonprofits 

From my initial consultation with Dr. Van Tuyl, I knew that I would be able to flourish and prosper as a highly sensitive individual under her guidance and teachings. She has helped me immensely in identifying blind spots that I was unable to recognize in myself.

During moments of high emotional distress, Dr. Van Tuyl has been there not only to help soothe and heal the wounds but also to provide me with further tools to care for myself emotionally and spiritually outside of her direct care. 

I experienced intergenerational trauma and domestic turbulence that led to a longstanding pattern of losing myself in romantic relationships and overcompensating with high achievements and an overwhelming pressure to succeed. As a result of the healing, I’ve learned to further trust my intuitive gifts and end the traumatic intergenerational patterns.

I have a better relationship with my parents, I can still be fully functional while learning to set limits that used to terrify me, and simultaneously process and heal wounds that once felt impossible to soothe. We used amazing transformative meditations that led to powerful soul retrievals from my past childhood traumas, and I was able to finally heal pieces of my child self that needed rescuing. I feel empowered, free, and strong, thanks to the tools Dr. Van Tuyl has provided me with to thrive in my everyday life.  

UCB Undergraduate student, Physics 

 As someone diagnosed with ADHD, my biggest block is self-doubt and feeling self-conscious and insecure. I often imagine the worst and compare myself to others to the point of having internalized external standards that often confuse me. I can’t tell sometimes who I truly am and what I need on an authentically self love level or what society has expected from me in promise of success, happiness, and peace.

No matter what my loved ones say, I tend not to believe the positive and fish for confirmation of the negative. This has created a self-fulfilling prophecy where I and others feel trapped in a frustrating vicious cycle that leads to conflict, inabilty to focus and do well, and more self-doubt. Loraine uses a whiteboard, diagrams, task lists, and scheduling grids to help me to see the holes in my thought-patterns, learn new grounding, executive functioning, and time-management techniques, and advocate for myself with courage and commitment.

UCB Undergraduate student, Psychology major