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 About Lori A. Parker, SEP, GCFP, Ph.D.
Dr. Lori Parker has been involved in
teaching and spiritual counseling since 1985 and in healing since 1993.
She is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®,
a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, an
Aikido Instructor with her own private school, and an ordained Zen Buddhist
Priest. She has authored a book titled, In Search of Harmony, as well as two articles
for the Somatic Experiencing Community: Polyvagal
Theory: What Is It And Why Should We Care? and Shock
Trauma, Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction and Autoimmune Syndromes:
What's The Connection?
Additionally she has co-authored two articles with Somatic Experiencing
Faculty Member, Dr. Raja Selvam. These include: A Note On Working
With Anger in the Context Of An SE Session; Working Around Developmental
Defenses in SE Sessions.
After a series of physical trauma,
including being struck by a car (as a pedestrian), Dr. Parker experienced
such excruciating pain she had to be packed in ice for much of the day in
order to be able to conduct martial arts instruction in the evening. Severe
headaches, as well as muscle spasms in her back, neck and shoulders continued
to reduce her physical abilities. She was unable to lie comfortably in any
position.
During the four-year training program in
the Feldenkrais Method®, the daily pain
dissipated and her ability to function without physical pain was restored. Somatic
Experiencing® furthered her progress by healing the deeper
effects of trauma.
Her expression and application of the Somatic
Experiencing method is informed not only by her own extensive
rehabilitation process but also by her background in Aikido and Zen -
disciplines which have at their core, the concepts of centering, grounding,
and self-awareness.
Dr. Parker integrates the Somatic
Experiencing® method into her Feldenkrais®
sessions, as the need arises (when the client has requested that she do so).
She also offers individual sessions using exclusively the Somatic
Experiencing® Model.
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