About Laurie Stalker Jackson
I am a ritualist, embodiment guide, and former somatic therapist providing radical accompaniment for remembering entanglement in the Web of Creation. I currently live, work, and tend relationships on the ancestral lands of the Anigiduwagi (Cherokee) people in Asheville, NC.
My ancestors were from Slovakia, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germany. As a white-bodied descendant of colonial-settlers to Turtle Island, I have benefitted from hundreds of years of colonization. I carry the complexity of cultural reckoning and repair alongside the devotion to secure relating and reciprocity with land, grief, ancestors, and the Sacred.
I am a fat, cis-woman living in hetero-married privilege, and also a bisexual, menopausal, neurodivergent queer with layers of chronic health associated with autoimmunity and syndromal patterns.
I am a student of the decolonial movement; I have been in learning and mentorship with Dra. Rocio Rosales-Meza 2021-2024 unlearning white colonial indoctrination, and healing with my own precolonial ancestors to support not replicating systems of domination and control in my life and in my healing and ritual work (See "Learning Lineage "below). I also regularly meet with a white-bodied affinity group to explore and address ways I am still embodying and complicit in supremacy culture.
This is lifelong 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 able-bodied, cisgender woman racialized as white. 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.