Laurie Cousins, CMT-P

Integrative Healing Practitioner & Wellbeing Consultant

About Me

I am an Integrative Healing Practitioner and Wellbeing Consultant devoted to helping people remember their wholeness, reconnect with nature, and return to the wisdom of their inner knowing. My work weaves together decades of study and extensive training in mindfulness, somatic healing, intuitive healing, root-cause modalities, parts work, and nature-based therapy. I am also a mother of two incredible young adults, an eclectic spiritual seeker, and someone who believes deeply in our innate capacity for healing and transformation.

My personal healing journey has shaped everything I offer. As a survivor of trauma, I spent many years navigating anxiety, depression, compulsive patterns, nervous-system dysregulation, and fluctuations of hyper and hypo-vigilance. Over several decades, I worked with teachers, wisdom practices, indigenous healers, and therapeutic modalities that helped me reclaim my whole self—mind, body, and spirit. I began meditating at seventeen and consider myself a lifelong student. I don’t claim to have all the answers; I trust they already live within you. Often, we simply need attunement, care, and guidance to remember who we are beneath our survival strategies.

I believe healing is an integrative and relational process:

• The body carries our survival patterns and instincts.

• The mind carries our stories, perceptions, and clarity.

• The spirit carries our truth, intuition, and purpose.

Healing happens when the mind, body, and spirit come back into relationship.

When this conscious and embodied relationship begins to connect, transformation becomes possible. My role is to support this compassionate reconnection through modalities that help the nervous system to regulate, unwind long-held patterns, and allow the whole self to gently reorganize into clarity, coherence, authenticity, and empowerment.

My Approach to Healing

I take an integrative, trauma-responsive mind–body–spirit approach that includes:

• Mindfulness and Compassion Training

• Somatic Healing and Nervous-System Regulation

• Nature-Based Practices and Wolf-Assisted Therapy

• Integral Eye Movement Therapy

• Parts Work and Compassionate Inquiry

• Root Cause and Intuitive Healing

• Trauma-Informed Care and Neuroscience

This integrative path is what I practice, the foundation of how I live, and the heart of how I work with others.

Education, Professional Training & Credentials

Education

B.A. in Psychology, California State University, Northridge

Mindfulness Training

• Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, UCLA Mindful (2014)

• Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention, UCSD Center for Mindfulness (2014)

• Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, UCSD Center for Mindfulness (2015)

• Lead Teacher, Inner Kids / Susan Kaiser Greenland (2013)

• Mentored by Susan Kaiser Greenland & Diana Winston

Somatic Training

• Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Level I & II Clinical Training (2017)

• Community Resiliency Model (CRM), Certified Teacher (2023)

• Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT), Trained (2025)

• Root Cause Healing, Trained Practitioner Level II (2023)

• Intuitive Healing, Certified Practitioner (2020)

Nature-Based Therapy

• Lead Facilitator & Guide, Wolf Connection – Women & Wolves, Youth Empowerment (2018)

• Wolf Therapy – Animal-assisted Therapy Practitioner & Packcare Assistant (2018)

Trauma-Informed Education

• Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Certified Practitioner (2020)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, Certificate (2025)

• Trauma Informed Nonviolent Parent Educator, Certified Facilitator (2019)

• Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Teens, Center for Adolescents Studies (2013)

Specialized Teaching Roles

• Lead CRM Facilitator, Sexual Assault Investigations: Victim-Centered Engagement and Resiliency Tactics (SAI-VCERT), Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (Current)

• Lead Facilitator & Curriculum Contributor, La Maida Project - Co-developing workshops, series, and train-the-trainer programs addressing Mental Health and rooted in connection, relational neuroscience, and whole-person wellbeing for teams and organizations (Current)

• Trained Facilitator, ECHO Training - Creator of Trauma-informed Mindfulness Training (Current)

• Research Associate, UCLA Child & Adolescent Mood Disorders Program

• Co-Creator & Facilitator, Mindful Parenting Support Study program with Dr. Danielle Denenny, UCLA CHAMP. Provided psychoeducation and mindfulness-based practices for parents of children with mood disorders

You can find my meditations on Apps such as Meditation Studio and Unplug Meditation.