All my life, whenever I found myself in a group of people, whether it was a party of friends, a professional gathering,  or a group of spiritual seekers, I always felt separate from everyone else. I always felt like I didn’t belong. This was true even when it came to family. When my family sat down to open gifts at Christmas, I always felt like an outsider that had somehow wormed his way inside.

But when I touched into the feelings of this lifelong issue during a Somatic Experiencing® session, I uncovered the memory of a medical trauma in childhood. When I was around seven years old, I had spent the night in the children’s ward of a hospital (already a traumatic situation) to have my tonsils removed. In the morning, as the nurses came and took the other children away for their surgeries one by one, I watched and waited for my turn, alone and terrified. I was the last of the ten children to be taken in to surgery.

During the session, as the feelings of that traumatic incident arose, I gently discharged the stressful nervous energy that had lingered in my body from that event over fifty years ago and felt immediate relief. Logically, that event doesn’t  seem to have anything to do with my issue with groups of people. But those anxious feelings of separation vanished. Since that moment, I now find myself quite comfortable at any kind of gathering. I feel like I am an integral and necessary part of any group in which I find myself.

Quite often, the source of our negative experiences or feelings can found way in the past in events that don’t seem to have anything to do with our problems now. That’s the mystery of trauma. The proof of how effective trauma work is is that years later, those old feelings have never returned.

Larry is a Somatic Experience® Practitioner (SEP) who helps train others in Somatic Experiencing® and Trauma Resolution. He has also trained and been certified in NARM (Neuro-Associative Relational Model for developmental traumas) NLP, Hypnosis, Time-Line Therapy, Brainspotting, and Somatic Resilience and Regulation After Early Trauma.

Larry’s gift is in taking elements from all his trainings and intuitively combining them into effective treatments for those he sees. Larry treats all kinds of traumas, from “soft” to “hard” traumas such as complex PTSD and Anxiety Disorders. He also works with pain, depression, anxiety/panic attacks,  pre-natal and developmental attachment disorders, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, car accidents, and physical attacks.

Larry has a special place in his heart for returning combat vets and works by phone and Skype, helping them to not only be free of the symptoms PTSD but also to become more alive and empowered.

Larry also works with inter-generational traumas by facilitating both group and personal Family Constellations.

Larry also teaches Tai Chi Chih! and has extensively studied shamanism for over 25 years. He teaches a series of workshops on Hawaiian Shamanism worldwide and sometimes incorporates these ancient healing techniques into his practice in Long Beach, CA.

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