Laura K. Kerr, PhD is a scholar and former psychotherapist specialized in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Though her primary focus is trauma and its effects, her interests are varied, with degrees in physics, atmospheric and space science, philosophy, counseling psychology, and the philosophy of education and symbolic systems. Dr. Kerr has published numerous articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and a monograph, Dissociation in Late Modern America. Her collection of essays, Trauma's Labyrinth: Reflections of a Wounded Healer, won a 2022 Bronze Living Now Book Award and a 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award.
She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not writing non-fiction, she spends her time gardening, painting, writing poetry, practicing yoga, and enjoying the local wildlife. Visit her at laurakkerr.com.
