Welcome.
My name is Laura Perlin. I appreciate your curiosity about my work.
I came to therapeutic sexuality work through a long and winding process. I’ve had a full-time healing arts practice for over a decade, and have studied and practiced as a massage therapist, herbalist, counselor, yoga teacher, ritualist, and Ayurvedic practitioner. My work has involved teaching, facilitation, events production, and co-founding and running a brick-and-mortar healing arts and events space in San Francisco. My ancestral indigenous traditions have been at the core of my healing arts work: practices like ritual, divination, ancestral reverence, and animism inform my spirituality, professional practice, and daily life.
Decades of inquiry into the relationships between individual, collective, and planetary wellness (and unwellness) led me towards the practice of therapeutic sexuality work. I believe that experiencing pleasure and fulfillment within ourselves as individuals and being well-loved and relationally nourished is inextricably linked to showing up well within the interconnected web of life on earth. I humbly offer this work as a gesture towards healing that which needs to be mended within the human people.
My Training and Community.
I currently study, engage, and collaborate with others in the fields of sexuality, trauma, and somatics including:
my Core training
Surrogate Partner Collective: Fundamentals of Embodied Intimacy; Surrogate Partner Therapy Specialized Professional Training; Supervised Apprenticeship (multiyear, ongoing)
Mentorship and Peer Support
Andrew Heartman; Katherine Yeagel; Eileen Chao; Kai Wu
Trauma and Somatics
Linda Thai: Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies; The Missing Pieces of Attachment Theory: A Decolonized Approach
Transformative Justice
The Heal Project: When Harms Hits Home: Dreaming Beyond Punishment
Spirituality and Liberation
Fierce Passions: Erotic Breathwork Group Journeys
Professional Communities
Surrogate Partner Collective; American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
Learn more about my work beyond therapeutic sexuality on my other website.
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