Lara is a clinical hypnotherapist, a performance storyteller and a teacher of research. Lara is a Director of Evidence Based Acupuncture. 

Lara has been teaching research methodology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervising MSc dissertations in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine at the Northern College of Acupuncture, UK since 2005. Here her passion lies in helping practitioners to bring evidence to the care of their patients, integrate scholarship into their clinical practice and communicate their own research in a clinically relevant way.

Lara’s current research interests centre around patient adherence, chronic pain conditions, the implementation of complementary modalities in mainstream healthcare, and the clinical applicability of research.