Laurie Clark
Bereavement Education
Trauma-Informed Somatic Grief Work
Holistic polyvagal-informed EMDR interventions
Website Somaticgriefwork.com
Laurie Clark, trauma-informed somatic grief companion, welcomes you to this safe and supportive space. Here, you are invited to explore grief and anxiety with curiosity, compassion, and connection. This bottom-up approach taps into the griever's awareness of how anxiety is stored in the soma (the body).
Together, we honour each grief story and embrace the emotional vulnerability, individually or in a confidential circle group. Laurie is an empathetic witness to the grief experience. This empathetic, co-regulatory relationship helps the griever out of feeling isolated in their grief. Each person welcomes the opportunity to become an expert in their own grief process through shared presence and active listening.
As a grief consultant/group facilitator, she companions with a deepened level of empathetic presence to nurture the collective wisdom and co-intelligent dynamic found in community interaction.
Building resilience through somatic awareness and polyvagal-informed EMDR intervention, she assists clients in befriending grief-stricken emotions held in the body.
Therapeutic interventions include techniques from the practice areas: somatic experiencing, reflexology, compassionate inquiry, parts work, EMDR, nature connection, and integrative sound vibration therapy.
Articles:
Topic: Bereavement and Group Work
http://www.theembodylab.com/blog/bereavement-companionship-and-somatic-group-work
Topic:
Calling in My Ancestors. A Somatic Experience in Bereavement
https://www.theembodylab.com/blog/calling-in-my-ancestors-a-somatic-experience-in-bereavement
RECE, Early Childhood Education
Nature Connection Empathy Circles with Youth. Outdoor
Early Childhood Education Programming- Classrooms
Grief Education for Youth/ Restorative Communication in Elementary Schools
YOUTH WORK
RECE. Registered Early Childhood Educator
Outdoor Classrooms/ Elementary Education
Restorative - Empathy Circle Groups in Nature (20 years) is an integral part of Laurie's Somatic Grief Work with youth.
Contact:
Email: somaticgriefwork@gmail.com
Website: https://somaticgriefwork.com
Writing portfolio:
https://somaticgriefwork.medium.com/
The Embody Lab Therapist Directory:
https://findatherapist.theembodylab.com/ViewProfile.aspx?therapistid=2420