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Laurie Ferguson, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Atascadero, California. She attended graduate school at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation was Trickster Shows The Way: Humor, Resiliency and Growth in Modern Native American Literature. She obtained her undergraduate education at the California State University, Chico. She is a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, a distant cousin of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a direct descendant of founders of the Santa Barbara Mission. She is Native American of the Pomo and Concow tribes of California, and a registered member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, a sovereign nation of confederated tribes.