Laurie Leitch, PhD had a psychotherapy practice for many years and did program evaluation around the edges of her practice. She is married, currently living in New York in the USA and has two adult children and two grand children. A turning point in her professional life came when she took a course in the wonders of the brain with neuropsychologist Angelo Bolea and learned exciting things that she had never learned in graduate school. Following that, she took a multi-year training with Peter Levine in Somatic Experiencing. She began working internationally, work that continues to this day. Her passion has been creating a model that can be used by anyone, regardless of educational level, race or ethnicity, country of origin, or type of trauma or pain they have experienced. The Social Resilience Model (SRM), also called the Brain Gain Program (BGP), has been used in countries suffering natural and human caused disasters, war trauma, and ethnic strife as well as in communities suffering the multi-generational impact of systemic racism and structural inequality. Laurie Leitch's passionate commitment is to offer people a powerful yet simple to use way of building their natural resilience.
