Alumni News

Pacific Northwest author and UW SSW Alumna Lisa Iversen, MSW ’92, reads from just released book, Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America's Soul, at the Eastside Baha’i Center on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7pm

Bellingham, WA – October 16, 2009.  Local psychotherapist and author Lisa Iversen reads from her first and just released book, Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America’s Soul, at the Eastside Baha'i Center, 16007 N.E. 8th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008, on Thursday, October 29, 2009, at 7pm.
Iversen’s psychotherapy practice has been based in the Pacific Northwest since 1993. She specializes in a unique healing approach that works with transgenerational loss and trauma called Systemic Family Constellations. She has facilitated hundreds of groups using this approach since 1999. The book was inspired by her work in the Northwest, the Southeast, and across the United States over the last decade.
She explains, “As I worked with diverse populations as a Systemic Constellations therapist, my intuitions led to an expanded awareness of the need for healing in American culture. I could increasingly see that the difficulties people described in my therapy office were not only individual problems; they mirrored the collective unacknowledged American experience. I began to see a connection between our American quest for psychological health and the unacknowledged traumatic truths of our country’s history. Emphasis on the individual experience of shame, guilt, perfectionism, communication, and abuse are in resonance with America’s earliest immigrant and colonial history.”
Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America’s Soul offers readers the following:

• a compassionate look at American history through the eyes of a psychotherapist who specializes in transgenerational loss and trauma;
• insight into the influence of our ancestors’ lives on ours;
• consciousness regarding the consequences of unacknowledged truth in our families and country;
• a unique perspective on the place of psychotherapy in American culture; and
• a framework for observing and interacting with life, inspired by our ancestral blueprints.

Lisa Iversen received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington in 1992 and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America’s Soul is available for $19.95 from local independent bookstores. For event information, contact Anutosh Foo, anutoshf@gmail.com, (425) 822-6056.  For media materials and author interviews, visit www.lisaiversen.com or contact Lisa Iversen at (360) 223-3538.