Meet Our Doctor

Karen Lawson M.D.

Karen Lawson, MD, a leader in integrated and holistic health care for over 15 years, serves as the lead medical consultant for Life Force Therapies.

She is an assistant professor of University of Minnesota’s Family Medicine and Community Health, and is Director of Health Coaching at the UMN Center for Spirituality and Healing. Karen co-designed and has taught the health coaching curriculum since the program’s inception in 2005. She is a physician, board-certified in both Family Medicine and Holistic Medicine.

She was the 2003/5 President of the American Holistic Medical Association, and a founding Diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. Dr. Lawson, a published author and researcher, teaches in the medical school and in the Center’s graduate courses. Other interests include dance, meditation, yoga, nutrition, homeopathy, and mind/body medicine. She has been a student of shamanic practices since 1994, and has teaches a graduate course in foundations of shamanism for UMN. Karen consults for other institutions and speaks nationally to diverse audiences on the power of integrated and holistic health care practices, and the importance of self-care.