Samantha Lau FNP, PMHNP-BC

Samantha Lau FNP, PMHNP-BC

I’m passionate about women’s health because I’ve spent more than 17 years in clinical practice watching women be misunderstood, dismissed, or treated with one-size-fits-all approaches that miss the deeper story. Women’s bodies and minds move through unique hormonal, emotional, and life-stage transitions like puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause that psychiatry and primary care have historically overlooked. I saw too many women struggling with PTSD, mood changes, and a sense of disconnection from their own vibrant selves while being told “this is just how it is.” That never sat right with me. That’s why I founded ELEVATEHER®: to create a space where care is truly personalized, trauma-informed, hormone-informed, and psychedelic-informed. By weaving together psychiatry, precision hormone work, and consciousness practices like ketamine-assisted therapy, I help women reconnect with their full selves and experience the kind of deep, lasting healing that standard care often can’t reach. My dual board certification in psychiatry and family medicine and my advanced psychedelic therapy training have deepened my conviction that when we honor the intricate interplay of hormones, metabolism, mood, trauma, and spirit, women don’t just feel better. They come home to themselves in profound ways. Witnessing that transformation, session after session and retreat after retreat, is what fuels me every single day.