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From Journalist to Therapist: Her Backstory

Today we call those events “breaking news.”  During her twenty years working as a writer-producer for CBS News, Reuters Television and ABC News, she came to realize that people whose lives were destroyed by violence would need long-term support. As a result of her experience covering the military dictatorship in Chile for Newsweek, Laurie worked with several human rights organizations upon her return to the States. She started the human rights committee of the Overseas Press Club and co-founded the Committee to Protect Journalists. (NY Times and  World Policy Journal.)In 1987, after burning out working the Iran-Contra hearings on the heels of a long Writers Guild of America strike,  Laurie came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) and was bedridden for nearly three years.  As there is no conventional treatment for this virus, she began studying the work of Dr. Herbert Benson who introduced meditation to the medical community.  She began a lifelong meditation practice and eventually went back to graduate school for doctorates in cognitive psychology and clinical hypnotherapy. In 2000, she completed post-doctoral clinical training in mind-body medicine with Dr. Benson at Harvard Medical School’s Institute of Mind-Body Medicine.Her need to find new ways to help people struggling with mental health issues led her to travel to South America in the 1990s to study with indigenous healers and shamans in the jungles, mountains, and cities of South America.   Dr. Laurie integrates their teachings of connecting with nature into all of her sessions and workshops. A Reiki Master for the past two decades, she is expanding her Reiki practice to help animals and their human companions,  (animalreikiplanet.com)A psychotherapist in Manhattan during the week,  Laurie spent most weekends filing cover stories for The New York Times.  Her “On the Water” features covered the local marine environment and extreme water sports. Her column “Long Island at Worship” reported on communities of faith in the suburbs.  An expert in stress, health and trauma, Laurie has done more than 100 TV interviews including CBS News, CNN and the BBC. Her work has been featured in  The Wall Street Journal , Business Insider, People magazine and The New York Times. She was a guest on Oprah, talking about her revolutionary four-time best-seller Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power  which launched the psychic revolution.  Still in print after 33 years, Sixth Sense broke the story of the Pentagon’s secret psychic espionage program.