Laurie F. Schwartz has over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, massage therapist, and teacher of body-centered psychotherapy techniques. She has trained extensively in modalities like Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, and Hellinger Family Systems. She maintains a private practice in New York City helping clients with trauma, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. She also supervises professionals seeking certification in body-centered psychotherapy approaches.

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Laurie F. Schwartz, M.S.
20 West 64th Street Apt. 21J
New York, NY 10023-7129
212-4961727
Professional Experience
Certified Teacher 2004-Present
The Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy®
• Teaching, leading exercises and supervision of training
professionals in the use of the body to enhance and deepen
the processing of emotional material when working with
patients in one’s professional practice.
Training Supervisor 1998-Present
Somatic Experiencing® New York, Vermont, Florida,
Israel, Poland, and Switzerland
• Supervisor for individuals in the training of professionals
in the sensation-based, psychoneurophysiological release
of trauma with Dr. Peter A. Levine.
Psychotherapist in Private Practice 1986-Present
New York, NY
• Provide individual, couple and group counseling with
people suffering from trauma, anxiety, depression,
psychosomatic illnesses, marital difficulties and
personality disorders.
Massage Therapist in Private Practice 198o-1995
New York, NY
• Performing massage therapy with individuals bringing in a
wide range of physical symptoms.
Training Supervisor 1988-1996
The Hakomi® Method of Body-Centered Psychotherapy New York, NY
• Teaching, leading exercises and supervision of training
professionals in the use of the body to enhance and deepen
the processing of emotional material when working with
patients in one’s professional practice.
Massage Therapist 1979-1981
N.Y. Health & Racquet Club/The Atrium Club New York, NY
• Performed Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage, Shiatsu
(Accupressure), and Polarity Therapy in a health club
setting.

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U.S. Peace Corps 1975-1978
Limuru Girl’s High School Limuru, Kenya
• Head of the music and physical education department.
Responsibilities included teaching A and O level music
certification, leading the school choir, teaching private
piano classes and promoting the national syllabus for
multi-ethnic education.
Education
Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology 2003-2004
Pace University Pleasantville, NY
• Specializing in addiction, Death & Bereavement, and Family
Therapy
Training and certification in Hellinger Family Systems 2000-2001
The Bert Hellinger Institute, USA Redding, CT
• Completion of a one-year basic training in the systemic
phenomenological approach of Bert Hellinger, (Love’s
Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships),
employing his group treatment and ideas of multi-
generational influence on family dynamics and trauma.
Training and Certification in Somatic Experiencing® 1996-2000
Foundation for Human Enrichment Lyons, CO
• Completion of a three-year program taught by Dr. Peter A.
Levine, (Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma), utilizing
working with body awareness, the concepts of resourcing,
titration, and renegotiation in conjunction with imagery
and neurophysiological release in the resolution of
emotional and physical trauma.
Training in Modern Analytic Group Therapy 1994-Present
CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF GROUP STUDIEs New York, NY
• Experiential and didactic course work in group therapy
skills to resolve resistances to intimacy, expression and
maturation under the direction of Dr. Louis Ormont (Group
Therapy Experience: From Theory To Practice).
Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner Training 1983-1999
Center for The Advancement of Group Studies New York, NY
• Brought to the west from Japan by Mary Burmeister, the
art of Jin Shin Jyutsu teaches clients and practitioners
how to harmonize and balance energy pathways of the body
to regain health.

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TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION IN THE HAKOMI METHOD OF
BODY-INCLUSIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY 1984-1991
Hakomi Institute Boulder, CO
• Experiential, group and didactic training and supervision in
the practice, theory and principles of body-inclusive
psychotherapy as developed by Ron Kurtz (Hakomi Therapy;
The Body Reveals, Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the
Spirit of the Tao Te Ching).
Professional Enrichment Program in Jungian Psychology 1989-1991
Rye, NY
• Coordinated by Don Kalshed, Ph.D., this program for
psychotherapists exposed students to the concepts and
techniques of analytical psychology as set forth by Carl
Jung, M.D. This involved the study of dreams, imagery and
creative arts in working with patients.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Training & Certification 1988-1992
Lenox, MA
• Synthesized and developed by Michael Lee, this training
teaches practitioners to use stretching, meditation and
emotional facilitation in helping clients move through pain
and tension and into relaxation and greater awareness of
self.
Certification in Massage Therapy 1980-1982
The Swedish Institute New York, NY
B.A. Degree in Music and Anthropology 1971-1975
Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa
License/Affiliations
• New York (1980) State License in Massage Therapy
• Member Hakomi Therapists Association
• Memeber International Association of COunselors and Therapists
• Member Foundation for Human Enrichment
Skills/Hobbies
• African Percussion and Dance
• Photography
• Poetry
• Singing Ballads and Jazz
• Yoga