Laura is a modern-day polymath. She has degrees in physics (BS, Texas State University), atmospheric and space science (MS, University of Michigan), philosophy (MA, University of Cincinnati), counseling psychology (MA, Pacifica Graduate Institute), and an interdisciplinary doctorate from Stanford University centered on philosopy of learning and symbolic systems.

She is the author of two books: Dissociation in Late Modern America: Defense Against Soul? and Trauma’s Labyrinth: Reflections of a Wounded Healer, which received a Living Now Book Award as well as a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Both books were motivated by her former work as a mental health scholar and psychotherapist specialized in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Carl G. Jung’s analytical psychology.

Laura lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband. She enjoys painting, writing poetry, traveling with her husband, and supporting native fauna & flora in the Bay Area.

laura [at] laura k kerr [dot] com