Laurie A. Couture, M.Ed
https://laurieacouture.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/LaurieACouture
https://laurieacouture.substack.com/
Laurie A. Couture is the author of newly released book, Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons (2023), and Instead of Medicating and Punishing (2008).
She is an expert in child behavior, learning, and attachment and a specialist in treating developmental trauma in children and youths. Through her writing, speaking, workshops, and consulting, Laurie helps families and professionals heal behavioral, emotional, and learning challenges naturally, by restoring the child’s natural cycle of homeostasis.
Laurie is a strong voice for attachment parenting, homeschooling, alternative education, and drug-free, brain-based mental health treatment. Laurie has over two decades of clinical and professional experience with youths and families as a consultant, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and EMDR practitioner, as well as in the fields of foster and adoption social work, juvenile justice, and education.
Laurie was featured in the documentaries, The War On Kids and Class Dismissed and was a researcher for The Red Pill. She has spoken around the country, including at the 2019 American Public Health Association conference and the 2020 International Conference on Men’s Issues. Laurie received New Hampshire’s “Forty Under 40” honors in 2010.
In September 2017, Laurie tragically lost her beloved 23-year-old son to suicide. Laurie adopted Brycen from the foster care system when he was 11. He suffered severe child abuse and neglect and over a dozen foster and group home placements prior to finding his forever family.
The unfathomable loss of Brycen, and of the thousands of other boys and young men lost to suicide each year, impresses upon us the critical need for childhood trauma prevention and attention to the unique stressors and human rights obstacles faced by boys and young men in our society.