I started my career after graduating from Atlanta School of Massage in August of 2010. 

 I joined the healing team at Absolute Healthcare Chiropractic to perform Neuromuscular and Postural techniques. Our goal was to help train our clients bodies to hold a correct posture.

There, I fell in love with all the subtleties of massage and the effects they bring to the body. 

In 2012 I was recruited by Erika Larson LMT & RT to join a budding field of research massage.  She is the lead research massage therapist in the partnership between Emory and Atlanta School of Massage.

We were drafted to design and write a study with Dr. Mark Rapport

that would begin to shed a light on the emotional and chemical by byproduct of massage with subjects who suffer from General Anxiety Disorder. 

The study concluded in 2016. A synopsis of the study is below.  After the study concluded, I was inspired to learn more about the human body. I was able to achieve my additional course work at Chamberlain College of Nursing.  Two years of Anatomy & Physiology, Applied Kinesiology,  Chemistry, Microbiology and Pharmacology, I felt complete.  I ended by education and started to build by own practice, Body Work by Laureen!