“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

Laura J. Swan is a transformational coach, intuitive healer, a trauma informed and trained psychotherapist, ceremonialist, and a passionate advocate of women’s healing, leadership, and empowerment.

She has had a private healing and coaching practice working with women, men, couples, and children for 15 years, and has been leading women’s circles, workshops and rite of passage ceremonies for over 22 years. Laura is available for both in person and virtual sessions.

As a Ceremonialist, Laura creates and facilitates potent, powerful rites of passage and healing ceremonies for all phases of life: menarche and puberty for young girls, fertility and pregnancy, coming of age, divorce or break-ups, brides to be, pregnancy loss, and grief and loss of a loved one or pet.

She is the Founder and Owner of the Women’s Temple in Carlsbad, CA, a place where women gather locally for circles, seasonal ceremonies and celebrations, and private workshops and retreats. You can find out about all upcoming events at the Women’s Temple here. 

She is an author and gifted facilitator, and also leads retreats and workshops internationally, while also providing a variety of online healing, empowerment, and leadership programs.

She currently lives with her husband and two children on their urban farm in Southern California with chickens, a large tortoise, two cats, and a precious therapy dog named Athos. She enjoys being with her children in nature, growing her own food, and tending to her garden and land with her family as much as humanly possible.

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Professional Education and Training:

Laura graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BA in Anthropology and Religion from Boston University, and holds her Masters degree in Depth and Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. As a trauma informed and trained therapist and counselor, a transformational coach, a yoga teacher, and a Reiki Master Teacher, she integrates all of these healing, energetic, and therapeutic approaches in her work.

While at Pacifica, she dove deep into the fields of comparative mythology, feminine spirituality, therapeutic counseling for couples and individuals, and archetypal psychology, all of which are integrated into her courses and coaching programs today.

She has done trainings and/or holds certificates in the following modalities which are integrated into her philosophy and methodology in her private and couples sessions:

*MA in Counseling Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy

*Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Therapy

*Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner

*Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

*Yoga Assisted Therapy for Mental Health

*Yoga for Fertility, Prenatal, and Postnatal

*Radiant Child Yoga and Meditation

*Certified Holistic Life Coach

She is the author of:

*Conscious Feminine Leadership for our Time and the Power of Circle

*Reclaim your Power: A Journey through Archetypes to Remember, Reclaim, and Rebirth your True Feminine Power and Wholeness

*Live like a Goddess, Think like a Queen

*The Reclaim your Power Guidebook and Creativity Journal

Click here to schedule a free consultation with Laura or to learn more about her coaching or upcoming circles and programs.

ABOUT our GIVING:

I believe we have a sacred responsibility of giving back to our community and our planet to help make this world a better place.

My personal passion is supporting organizations and projects that stand for the healing and empowerment of women and girls.

I am proud to say that there are countless organizations in the world today doing beautiful work for this cause. It’s such a sign of our times that this work for women is desperately needed, and that we are at last finding a greater balance of honoring feminine wisdom and power on this planet.

What I know for sure, and what is now backed by mounds of evidence and research from all over the world, is that when you heal, empower, and educate women and girls, the whole world wins.

Families get healthier. Communities get stronger. Peace is enhanced, and poverty is reduced. The global impact is real and no one can deny it: everyone wins.

So this is what I stand for with all my heart in my business and in my giving.

Here is a list of the organizations or programs that I support and stand behind, and that we donate to or support through fundraising. Please check them out and get involved if your heart feels called! Whatever you can give WILL make a difference.

A few of the organizations and Projects that I donate to and love:

The Girl Power Project by Just like my Child Foundation

Empowered girls dramatically improve the wellbeing of their families, their communities, and their countries – multiplying the impact on society.

Girls Inc.

Inspiring girls to be strong, smart and bold.

The Unstoppable Foundation

The Unstoppable Foundation is a non-profit humanitarian organization bringing sustainable education to children and communities in developing countries thereby creating a safer and more just world for everyone.

The Pachamama Alliance

Pachamama Alliance is a global community that offers people the chance to learn, connect, engage, travel and cherish life for the purpose of creating a sustainable future that works for all.