About Laurie

About Laurie Stalker Jackson

I am cisgender white settler on the lands of the Cherokee people, who are the past, present, and future stewards of these Appalachian Mountains where I live and work. My ancestors are settler-colonial Europeans from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and Slovakia. I share my lineage to situate myself as a person who, along with my ancestors, has benefitted from hundreds of years of colonization and who has been conditioned to uphold systems of domination and control. I acknowledge that because of this I have an even greater responsibility to contribute to the restoration of harmony and balance through unlearning and divesting from White Colonial Capitalist Patriarchy. I am in ongoing inquiry and accountability to how this lives in my nervous system and relationships, as well as the long term work of white-bodied anti-racist culture building. This is life-long work for me.

Credintials*

Certificates and Licensure

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor,

Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist,

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Transforming Touch Practitioner®

Safe and Sound Protocol Provider

Education and training:

Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (2014)

216-hour Somatic Experiencing Professional Training Program (2018)

92-hour Transforming the Experience-Based Brain® Certificate (2021)

Safe and Sound Protocol Provider Training (2020)

Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR, Personal Transformation Institute (2017)

500-hour training in Massage and Bodywork Therapy, Center for Massage and Natural Healing (2007)

*I acknowledge that much of the education I have received for licensure and credentials I hold are based in a colonial framework, which is seated in capitalism and white supremacy culture, and that I have had greater access to due to my social location as a white, able-bodied, cisgender woman. I actively seek to be accountable with my ongoing work and to be in service to the teachings of the Decolonial Movement, to cultural repair, and restoration of harmony and balance.

Learning Lineage

Below is a list of courses, mentorship, magic, and ritual that have informed and nourished me:

*I especially encourage other white folks who are interested in divesting from colonialism to be in right relationship by paying to learn from Black, Indigenous, and Femmes of Color (who have historically been extracted from without just compensation).

Unlearning and Healing the White Colonial Mind, Divine Alignment, and A New Paradigm of Care with Dra. Rocio Rosales-Meza

Engaging with Decolonization Through Somatics with Amber McZeal

Engaging with Our Ancestors for Intergenerational Healing with Dr. Jennifer Mullan

Reparative Community Consultations for White Bodies and Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem and Education for Racial Equity

Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies with Linda Thai

Healing Cycles of Harm with Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence (R.O.O.T.)

Our Winter's Dreaming, Dreaming with the Moon, and Forces of Nature with Shannon Willis at Red Earth Healing

Soulful Life Convivium with Holly Truhlar and Carl Rabke

Trauma-Informed Grief, Supporting Dignity Through Grief, Taproot, and Coming Back to Ourselves with Shauna Janz

Embodied Ancestral Inquiry with Wildbody Somatics

NeuroAffective Touch Modules 1-3 with Aline LaPierre

Ancestral Lineage Healing, Ancestors and Cultural Healing, Foundations of Ritual, Animist Psychology, Practical Animism, and Rituals for Healing Trauma with Ancestral Medicine

An Apprenticeship With Sorrow, The Alchemy of Initiation, Living a Soulful Life (self studies) Francis Weller

Secure Attach: Relationship Ready and Healing Complex Trauma with Annie Brook

We are the Culture Makers with Kelly Diels

We Are Finding Freedom: White Women Taking on Our Own White Supremacy Kari Points and Evangeline Weis

Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience (self study) and Therapy Mastermind Circle with Dianne Poole Heller

Relational Somatics and Ritual