Lora Matz, MS, LICSW

Lora Matz, MS, LICSW, is a psychotherapist, lecturer and writer who has worked for many years in the areas of mind-body Medicine and transpersonal development. Lora is a senior faculty member with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and teaches in the Professional Training Programs, CancerGuides® and the Healing the Wounds of War Program. Lora has extensive history working with children of all ages as well as adults.

Lora has her own practice and is the co-founder of Transformative Practices in Minneapolis. She has post-graduate training in transpersonal development, clinical hypnosis, guided imagery, and several other healing modalities. Lora incorporates imagery, breath work, meditation, and transpersonal development into her work as well as the Center’s model of working with groups. Lora is skilled in curriculum and program development. Lora created a curriculum that was piloted for the past three years to teaching inner city pre-school teachers and their small students stress reduction techniques and the principals of emotional intelligence. She worked for a year co-leading a team of facilitators working with the children who were on the bus when the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. Lora works part time at Prairie Care in MN and she is an adjunct faculty member with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing; Health Coaching Program

Lora has extensive experience in the area of death and dying, as well as integrative cancer care and has conducted trainings for health care professionals in the area of midwifing of death and integrative practices for the dying and their loved ones.