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Ancestry Matters In Your Story
Intergenerational Trauma Therapy
You may carry fears, beliefs, or impulses in your body, mind and spirit that started long before you were born.
Survival strategies get passed down, and so do the wounds they were built to protect.
Together, we trace what you inherited: what your parents and grandparents lived through, what they couldn't say, and how it shows up in your body and relationships today. We also look for the strengths and wisdom your lineage handed you. You get to choose what you keep and what ends with you.
The feeling of making an autonomous choice can free up a burdened spirit like you wouldn't believe.
Identity Matters in your Story
Anti-oppressive, identity-affirming, liberation-focused therapy
Your ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, body, and class are a part of your identities. And systems of oppression target exactly these parts based on their proximity to cis, het, affluent whiteness.
Racism, displacement, assimilation, code-switching, and being "the only one" in a white space is a type of trauma that ripples through a person, a family, and an ecosystem when repeated over time.
In our work, you don't have to explain your identities to me. We normalize talking openly about power, privilege, and oppression, because naming what is real is part of healing.
Oppression lives in the body, so I use somatic and experiential approaches to help your nervous system move out of vigilance or collapse and learn to trust rest, help, and boundaries.
Land Matters in your story
Decolonized Ecotherapy in Maryland
We were all Indigenous once.
Colonization, industrialization and capitalism don't just separate us from each other. They separate us from the earth, and from ways of knowing that many of our ancestors once lived by. Much of the disconnection we feel today traces back to that original attachment trauma.
Ecotherapy is a way of returning. Decolonized Ecotherapy is contextualized to acknowledge where severance occurred for you, your lineage, and how that lives inside of you today. How it potentially impacts your human-nature relationship as memories that your body carries.
Depending on what you need, ecotherapy might mean working outside at a local park. It might mean bringing nature practices into your daily life, or into our indoor or virtual session. It might mean working with natural cycles, ceremonies and rituals of significance.
Our relationship to the natural world mirrors our relationship to ourselves. So we come back to this over time, and nature begins to function as a co-facilitator of your healing, a place to reclaim relationships, grieve, and remember that you belong.
Natureza Therapy resides on the stolen land of the Piscataway Conoy and Nacotchtank (Anacostan) Tribes. I give thanks for the abundant and unconditional offerings their ancestral homeland has given my people when they immigrated here in the 1980s. I especially give thanks to the water of this place, and the tributaries that remind me that fluidity and flow are signs of a healthy ecosystem.
Bem-vindo/Welcome,
I am so glad you are here.
I'm Laura Marques Brown, she/her, LCPC & Liberation Practice Coach for Therapists. I am a disarming disrupter of the status quo.
I'm a multicultural cis/het woman raised speaking two languages. Growing up between cultures taught me how much of ourselves we can shrink down for the comfort of others. And how painful that can be. Later in life, I learned to speak with nature, and through those conversations I came home to who I was meant to be.
I'm part of a rising tide of decolonial, liberation-focused therapists reshaping what therapy can be.
I see clients in person at my Hyattsville office, outdoors in Wheaton, and online throughout Maryland and Virginia.
A healthy ecosystem is a diverse ecosystem, and I am here to help you remember how essential you are.