For over 25 years Laurie has been connecting people to God for emotional and spiritual healing in a part-time, supportive pastoral role. For 12 years she's worked with people full-time. She sees people  for spiritual coaching in a variety of areas. Her area of greatest experience,  is sexual trauma, but she works in many areas including, marriage relationships, trauma coping mechanisms, and depression. 

Laurie is an ordained minister. She graduated from Christ for the Nations in Dallas with an Associates degree in theology and has been trained in a  variety of counseling models, including RTF, Elijah House, the Immanuel Process and Sozo.  She was a trainer for several years for Restoring the Foundations. While living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, she founded and led HEAL, a prayer/counseling ministry at Manna Church, using the RTF format.

 Laurie is also an author and musician providing healing music for different venues. Her writings include the book Shattered, and Then and His Mosaic. (available at Amazon) And her most recent book: Dissociation: A Mechanism for Coping with Trauma @ Amazon. Her latest CD, Restore Me, is a compilation of original psalms for healing. Both her books and CD are written out of her personal healing journey. She loves to tell her story interwoven with humor.

Her most recent adventure has been in abstract and fluid art. She has loved experimenting and expressing and has even had her art displayed and sold!

Though she is not licensed or degreed, the Lord has given her favor through the leading of the Holy Spirit and her continued learning and studying of trauma and its affects on the soul and body. She is very connected to a network of therapists in the KC region and is a teacher at the Dissociation Seminars they offer through THCKC.

Laurie is also on the board of Oasis Communities International (www.OasisCommunities.org), a ministry in Sri Lanka, founded by Woody and Melanie Blok. The ministry  is comprised of a bible school, youth ministry and orphanage. She has ministered there in the bible school and church two different times. And she and her husband are also on the board of the The Trauma Healing Center in KC. They are also a very active part of the Barnabus Group. Matching 501C 3’s with Christian businesses.

Laurie also served as the volunteer Pastoral Director of The Single Mom KC, a non-profit serving single moms in Kansas City and is devoted to supporting single mom's in their journey by incorporating mentoring and equipping in practical areas. Her job involved facilitating trainings for the leadership and volunteers of the ministry in the area of wholeness and identity.

Laurie was married for 21 years to the late David Morris, a worship leader, author and teacher. She was widowed from 2002-2016. They pastored together throughout their marriage and walked through healing from his infidelity, sexual abuse, severe dissociation, and a battle with cancer that took his life in 2002.

Laurie is living now in Kansas City, and married to Tim Goddu. They have 8 children and 18 grands!