Lorene Clark Lacayo

Lorene Clark Lacayo, MA, PCC, NBC-HWC, RYT, is a Coach Mentor for the Gaja Mind-Body-Spirit Coach Certification. A board-certified professional coach, mentor coach, trainer, and facilitator, she brings more than twenty years in holistic health education and more than fifteen years of professional coaching to the coaches she mentors.

Lorene began her career with more than a decade in community health and holistic fitness, working with English- and Spanish-speaking communities, before training with coaching pioneer Linda Bark and building a coaching practice. She has served as faculty and mentor coach for a graduate program in integrative health, helped create and graduate the first cohort of an NBHWC-approved emotional well-being coach training, co-created the Coach Collaborative podcast and community, and mentored coaches for a leading wellness education company’s coaching certification.

She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and holds a BA in English from Chico State and an MA in Holistic Health Education and Somatic Psychology. Her work centers on leadership, life, and well-being coaching, emotional well-being, yoga, and nature-based retreats, and grew out of OLA, the community health model she created. She lives in Northern California.