Laura Emilia Escudero

A conversation with Laura Emilia Escudero

• What led you to choose psychotherapy or counselling as a profession?

  Navigating a tumultuous path marked by cultural conditioning and disordered behaviours, Laura embarked on a quest for healing, confronting burnout, overwhelm, and anxiety. This journey led her through a messy spiritual awakening, where she encountered both deception and wisdom, ultimately deciding to leave her job and immerse herself in somatics, psychotherapy, and philosophy.?
  
  Laura integrates somatic psychotherapy, counselling, yoga, embodiment, and bodywork to lead individuals on profound journeys of transformation. Her passion for somatic psychotherapy and creative expression movement stems from her own lived experience, where she confronted pain, shame, and trauma, once living outside her body due to a painful gynecological condition.
  
  Laura’s expertise encompasses trauma resolution, anxiety management, spiritual awakening support, and navigating intergenerational trauma, C-PTSD/PTSD, and nervous system regulation. She also has extensive experience working with dissociation, dysregulation, anxiety and trauma. Furthermore, Laura has facilitated various groups that empower women to reclaim their voice, expression, and connection to their bodies and selves.
  
  Her commitment to holistic healing is evident in her diverse studies from her Postgraduate Counselling & Psychotherapy degree accredited through PACFA and trained under renowned practitioners like Scott Lyons in Somatic Stress Release™ , Somatic Movement therapy, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Embodiment teacher training, Non-Linear Movement training, and Body-Mind Centering® Somatic movement education. And currently completing her Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training 3 year training.
  
  Fluent in navigating diverse cultures from her upbringing in 15 countries, Laura fosters a deep understanding and connection with individuals from various backgrounds and her South American roots. Living authentically and embracing imperfection and beauty with grace, she extends the privilege of her experience to empower others to reconnect with their innate capacity for alignment and wholeness.
  
  Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, Laura is deeply committed to serving others on their healing journeys, specializing in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and Internal Family Systems, offering transformative tools that have shaped her path.

• Which philosophical approaches have influenced your professional development?

  The three main modalities described below are what I refer to as the three threads of my work .
  Each one has a unique approach to the whole human being. In the evolution of this work, that has spanned almost two decades of learning,
  each of these core modalities influence each other and are slowly being woven together to form the one central offering.
  Process Oriented Psychotherapy & Counselling gives us a way to delve deeper into the psyche and soul whilst weaving in the mental and emotional body;
  Somatic Movement therapy and Bodywork is a gentle, subtle, yet powerful way to work with the many layers of the body and the inherent intelligence within;
  and Yogic Kashmir Shavism Tantric Philosophy and the 5 element theory from traditional Chinese medicine provides us with a unique map of the soul,
  almost like the blueprint that we can continue to refer back to.
  One thing they all have in common is that they don't treat the human being, the earth or the cosmos as static and fixed. In fact, change is at the heart of all three.
  
  Thus, The Work is not in any way complete and, I imagine, will continue to evolve for the rest of my days.
  

• What methods do you use?

  My sessions integrate a blend of bodywork, somatic humanistic psychology, trauma-informed care, movement education and expressive arts
  that help to facilitate and support positive change.
  I also combine my current graduate counselling and process work (psychotherapy branch) with somatic movement therapy for holistic embodied psychotherapy.
  
  My work is a trauma informed, strengths based and person centred model of care.
  
  I integrate somatic psychotherapy, counselling, yoga, embodiment, and bodywork to lead individuals on profound journeys of transformation. My passion for somatic psychotherapy and creative expression movement stems from her own lived experience, where she confronted pain, shame, and trauma, once living outside of my body due to a painful gynecological condition.
  
  Navigating a tumultuous path marked by cultural conditioning and disordered behaviours, I embarked on a quest for healing, confronting burnout, overwhelm, and anxiety. This journey led her through a messy spiritual awakening, where she encountered both deception and wisdom, ultimately deciding to leave mu job and immerse herself in somatics, psychotherapy, and philosophy.?
  
  My expertise encompasses trauma resolution, anxiety management, spiritual awakening support, and navigating intergenerational trauma, C-PTSD/PTSD, and nervous system regulation. She also has extensive experience working with dissociation, dysregulation, anxiety and trauma. Furthermore, I have facilitated various groups that empower women to reclaim their voice, expression, and connection to their bodies and selves.

• How has therapy made a difference in your life?

  Laura loves to be of service to others and to witness how people can heal themselves, realising that they don't have to be stuck and can come back to alignment and healing in a grounded way.
  
  Her work also helps her to be centred, humbled and connected to her own path.