The District House is a benefit of District216. Come by for a portion or all of the evening, meet amazing members + guests, and interact with speakers on a variety of topics.
Topic: "Psychedelics & Harm Reduction in Trauma Populations"
When: Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 from 5pm to 9pm (Speaker at 6:30pm)
Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)
Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.
Guests Welcome to purchase $50 tickets to The District House evenings.
Note: We will be filming the speaker for the District216 Change Your Lens Series. Refreshments provided.
Speakers: Kathryn LaRoe-Higgs (LCSW) & Lisa McJunkin (LMFT & COO)
SPEAKER BIOS
Speakers: Kathryn LaRoe-Higgs (LCSW) & Lisa McJunkin (LMFT & COO)
Kathryn LaRoe, (Katie) is a licensed therapist, graduating from USC with her Masters in Social Work with a focus on military and mental health. She previously held the position as Lead Therapist for The Mission Within, and now is now the Therapeutic Lead of Illuminating Warriors (previously Heroic Path To Light).
She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider, and Psychedelic preparation/integration specialist. Katie utilizes integrative techniques to address the consciousness of trauma. She has worked with extensively with Veterans and specifically Special Operations men and woman since 2008 in the plant medicine space. She enjoys a heavy focus on preparation for states of expanded consciousness, utilizing modalities that address the needs of the mind, body, soul, and subtle energy.
Katie works in depth with the shadow aspects of humanity, finding the grace and abundance in the lessons and teachings their internal wisdom. Katie has worked with states of expanded consciousness for over 20 years. She has witnessed and personally
experienced the healing capacity of plant medicines, breathwork, meditation, and present moment focus for the mind, body, soul, and energetic field.
Katie has a deep appreciation for her teachers who shared with her their wisdom and rites of passage of yogic, Native American, Shipibo, and Bwiti traditions. The wisdom experienced along the way has empowered her own internal healer and aided in the wisdom of navigating the various realms of the psyche for trauma resolution.
Kathryn lives in Southern California with her husband, Michael (Punky), and mastiff, Hank. She enjoys hiking, singing, meditation, breathwork, and present moment focus.
Lisa McJunkin received her Master of Arts in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University. She has been a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and practicing across California since 2011. She trained with Healing Beyond Borders in Healing Touch and Emotional Freedom Techniques with the EFT Tapping Training Institute. Lisa has vast experience with working with adults, special operators, veterans, first responders, health care professionals, adult students, active-duty personnel, parents, partnerships and chronic pain populations.
She offers individual and couples therapy, psychedelic integrative therapy services, EFT coaching, Healing Touch sessions, trauma informed care and trauma recovery consultation, self-healing classes and retreats using energy psychology methods.
Lisa specializes in provision of holistic and evidenced based treatments for acute stress to chronic anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma recovery to complex posttraumatic stress disorder. She engages her clients in healing through mind, body, and soul alignment to release old and often unhelpful responses and memories, by providing integration of Eastern and Western healing practices.
Lisa’s approach is direct, relational, somatic, and integrative with a trauma recovery lens. She is skilled at creating a safe, warm, and humorous environment. Her individualized whole person healing approach and engagement in advocacy for trauma recovery, support people in shifting through toxic stress, dysfunctional relationship patterns, deepening interpersonal connection, reconnection to spirituality and becoming more authentically themselves.