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).

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.

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.

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.