Today we’d like to introduce you to Latavia Jo Harley.
Latavia Jo, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
The Healing Haus was created from both personal healing and professional experience. I’m a licensed counselor, yoga and meditation teacher, sound healing facilitator, and the founder of The Healing Haus — a space centered around nervous system regulation, emotional healing, mindfulness, and reconnecting people back to themselves in a more compassionate and sustainable way.
My journey into this work wasn’t linear. Like many people drawn to healing professions, my own life experiences deeply shaped the path I chose. Over time, I began noticing that traditional mental health approaches, while incredibly important, often weren’t addressing the full picture. People weren’t just struggling cognitively — they were carrying stress, trauma, grief, burnout, and emotional overwhelm in their bodies and nervous systems as well.
That realization led me into deeper study and training in holistic healing practices including yoga, breathwork, meditation, Reiki, sound healing, and trauma-informed care. I started integrating these approaches alongside counseling work and quickly saw how powerful it could be when people learned to work with the body instead of constantly fighting against it.
What began as a passion project slowly evolved into The Healing Haus — a community and healing space focused on helping people regulate before they react, slow down enough to hear themselves again, and create lives that feel more aligned, grounded, and authentic. Today, I offer workshops, yoga classes, sound healing experiences, guided meditations, nervous system education, and holistic wellness resources both in-person and online.
I’m also preparing to begin my PsyD journey, which feels like a natural continuation of the work I’m already deeply passionate about. My goal has always been to bridge evidence-based psychology with holistic healing practices in a way that feels accessible, empowering, and genuinely human.
At the core of everything I do is the belief that healing doesn’t have to be perfect to be meaningful. Sometimes it simply starts with learning how to feel safe in your own body again.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It definitely hasn’t been a completely smooth road. Like many people building something deeply personal, there have been moments of burnout, self-doubt, financial stress, and learning how to navigate growth while still healing parts of myself at the same time.
One of the biggest challenges has honestly been learning how to get out of my own way. When you care deeply about your work and feel called to create something meaningful, fear and self-sabotage can sometimes show up disguised as perfectionism, overworking, procrastination, or questioning whether you’re truly ready for the opportunities in front of you. I’ve had to learn that growth often requires moving forward before you feel fully prepared.
Building The Healing Haus has also required balancing many roles at once — clinician, entrepreneur, facilitator, content creator, student, and human being. There have been seasons where things felt overwhelming behind the scenes, but those experiences have also made me more compassionate, grounded, and intentional in the work I do today.
I think one of the most important things I’ve learned is that healing and success are not linear. You can be helping others while still learning yourself. You can be growing while still struggling sometimes. That doesn’t make the journey less meaningful — it makes it real.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m a licensed clincial professional counselor (LCPC) and the founder of The Healing Haus where I specialize in blending evidence-based mental health practices with holistic healing approaches that support both the mind and body. My work focuses heavily on nervous system regulation, emotional healing, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and helping people reconnect with themselves in a more compassionate and sustainable way.
Through The Healing Haus, I offer yoga classes, sound healing experiences, guided meditations, workshops, breathwork, Reiki, and wellness resources designed to help people slow down, regulate, and create space for genuine healing. Much of my work centers around teaching people that healing is not just cognitive — it’s physiological, emotional, energetic, and deeply human.
I’m especially known for creating experiences that feel both grounding and emotionally safe. Whether I’m teaching a nervous system workshop, facilitating a sound bath, leading yoga, or sitting with someone in a counseling space, my goal is always the same: helping people feel seen, supported, and more connected to themselves.
Currently, The Healing Haus operates through collaborations with other local businesses, wellness spaces, community events, and private offerings rather than a permanent brick-and-mortar location. In many ways, that has allowed me to organically build community connections and bring healing experiences into spaces where people already gather and feel comfortable.
My long-term vision is to eventually grow The Healing Haus into its own physical wellness space and storefront — a place where people can come to feel grounded, supported, and connected through counseling-informed holistic care, workshops, movement, mindfulness, and community healing experiences. Right now, I’m intentionally building that foundation step by step while continuing to grow the business sustainably.
What I’m most proud of is building something that reflects both my professional training and my lived experience. The Healing Haus wasn’t created from a place of perfection — it was built from real healing, real challenges, and a genuine desire to create the kind of spaces I know many people are searching for. Seeing people leave my classes or workshops feeling lighter, calmer, more aware of themselves, or simply less alone is incredibly meaningful to me.
I think what sets me apart is my ability to bridge worlds that are often kept separate. I deeply value clinical knowledge and psychology, but I also understand the importance of the body, nervous system, mindfulness, creativity, rest, and community in the healing process. I try to make healing feel accessible, practical, and authentic rather than intimidating or performative.
At the end of the day, I want people to feel like they can exhale when they enter spaces I create.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have support from so many people and spaces throughout this journey, even if it hasn’t looked like the traditional mentor path. A huge part of The Healing Haus has been built through community, collaboration, and the people who continued showing up and believing in what I was creating before it was fully formed.
The yoga and wellness communities around me have played a major role, especially spaces like River Bend Yoga and Designs by Deseray, where I’ve been able to teach classes, facilitate workshops, and collaborate on events. Having businesses willing to open their doors and trust me with their communities has meant more than I can fully express.
My clients have also been some of my greatest teachers and inspirations. Watching people choose themselves, show up vulnerably, and do the work of healing is a constant reminder of why I do this. So much of what The Healing Haus has become has been shaped through those human connections and shared experiences.
Of course, my family and friends deserve credit as well for encouraging me through moments of doubt, stress, and growth behind the scenes. Building something meaningful can feel incredibly vulnerable at times, and having people who continue to support the vision — even during the uncertain stages — has made a huge difference.
I also think part of this journey has been learning to trust myself more deeply. While I’ve learned from many people along the way, a lot of The Healing Haus has been built through intuition, lived experience, education, trial and error, and a genuine desire to create spaces where people feel safe enough to heal and be themselves.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thehealinghaus.net
