Healing Supports

As the Executive Director of Freedom Lodge non-profit, Dr. Ruby Gibson has been dedicated to the craft and science of historical trauma reconciliation, cultural recovery, and wellness among Native Peoples for 35 years. She developed the transgenerational recovery model, Somatic Archaeology, and authored My Body, My Earth, The Practice of Somatic Archaeology, and its companion, My Body, My Breath Card Deck, A Tool for Transformation. Her techniques were formally researched and documented in the Toronto Press in December 2023. The mother of 4 children and grandmother of 5 grandchildren, Dr. Ruby has a heart full of hope for the next seven generations.

Katia R. López Petrovich, MS, NCC, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the Founder and Owner of Multicultural Psychotherapy and Consulting Services, Ltd. She has extensive experience providing outpatient mental health services to adolescents, adults, and families from diverse cultural backgrounds, with a strong focus on serving Latino communities in community-based settings, including nonprofit organizations and Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and family-centered care, and she provides services bilingually in English and Spanish. She has advanced training in EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing, and is a Minnesota Board-approved Marriage and Family Therapy Supervisor.

Magdalena Sunshine Serrano, LCSW, is Founder and CEO of Psyched Up Coaching and a behavioral health leader advancing healing-centered, equity-driven systems of care. She serves as Director of Behavioral Health and Psychiatry Services at Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, Inc., leading integrated care and culturally responsive practices. Serrano specializes in healing-centered approaches with Indigenous and underserved communities. As a coach and practitioner, she partners with leaders to build resilience, deepen reflective practice, and foster connection and empowerment. Her coaching mantra centers on unlocking one's essence to support authentic, aligned leadership and sustainable, community-driven change.

Dr. Maiysha Clairborne is an Integrative Physician, Visionary, Thought Leader, Consultant, and Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming. The founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Co., she helps individuals and organizations better understand trauma and how it affects the brain, our behavior, and our communication through her workshops, consulting and coaching. Informed by neuroscience and grounded in the tenets of emotional intelligence, Dr. Clairborne helps individuals and organizations become trauma informed by teaching conscious communication and emotional fluency.

Laura Jean Brennan, MSW, is a healing-centered coach and facilitator with more than 30 years of experience supporting individuals, communities, and systems in advancing equity, wellbeing, and meaningful change. Her work is rooted in trauma-informed practice, deep listening, and the belief that healing and justice are connected. She has designed and led large-scale community engagement and transformation efforts across public sector, healthcare, and community-based systems, with particular expertise in creating spaces where people who have historically been left out can safely share lived experience, build connection, and shape solutions that reflect their realities. As a coach, she supports individuals and groups to navigate complexity, process experience, and move toward alignment and action, drawing on structured facilitation, relational trust-building, and reflective practice. Through her work with JUSTICE SQUARED, Laura Jean helps cultivate spaces that center accountability, growth, and transformation.