Laura Chapman, M.A., LSW
2026 Murray Hill Road, #207
Cleveland, OH 44120
216-229-4111
Laura Chapman MA, LSW, is a Jungian Analyst (2017) who trained in Pittsburgh with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is a Licensed Social Worker in Ohio and has been in private practice in Cleveland, OH since 1980.
Laura completed an undergraduate degree in Dance from Bennington College (1973) and received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch West (1977). Laura completed the three-year post-graduate Training Program at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and their Intimate Systems Training (1995).
Laura's work in improvisational dance and movement formed an understanding of the body as a means for symbolic expression. Her early work as a psychotherapist included a somatic approach to develop awareness between the body and mental/emotional processes. Laura brings an embodied approach to analytic work. Her thesis was entitled The Psychoidal Aspect of Wounding; how the conscious exploration of one's wounded places can facilitate an opening for change, growth, and transformation.
Laura is an active member of Jung Cleveland, the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). She presented for IAAP at the International Conference in Vienna, Austria 2019, on Early Maternal Wounding and the Healing capacity of the Psychoidal Realm and in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2022, Contextual Relevancy.