Masha Serdyukova, LCSW, MPH, SEP
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
MAPS Trained | TEB Trained | EMDR Trained
About
I am a body-centered trauma therapist based in Chicago. The unceded land I'm on is known as Shikaakwa. This is the traditional homeland of the Council of the Three Fires: the Odawa, Ojibwe and Potowatami Nations. Many other tribes including the Peoria, Sioux, Ho-Chunk & Miami are also traditional stewards of this land.
I have so much gratitude for my teachers who have shaped my practice and point of view. The names of my teachers are: Arielle Giarreto, Berns Galloway, Dea Parsanishi, Dave Berger, Stephen Terrell, Francine Kelley, Spenta Kandawalla, Alta Starr, adrienne marie brown, Jennifer Toles, Danielle Feris, Hilary Moore, Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba, Tanuja Jagernauth.
My work strives towards accountable communities, and a world without prisons. With this in mind, I intend to conduct my practice through abolitionist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, de-colonial, disability justice, healing justice and feminist lenses. This is an endless project in and of itself and I have committed myself to the education and work necessary to continue forward motion.
I am an immigrant, former refugee, and child of the Russian, Jewish and Ukrainian diaspora - I am fluent in Russian. My people are Jewish and recently came to this land from Ukraine; our ancestors came from Russia, and the Eurasian sub-continent. My chosen people are queers, misfits and rabble-rousers; the silent, the screaming and the ungovernable.
Some of the political projects I have worked on include: the Chicago Healing Justice Network, Fed Up Fest collective, FASN, F12, Samizdat Zine Library, Papercut Zine Library, The Boston Skillshare Collective. My community work focuses on creating spaces for transformation and centering healing in movements for liberation.
I am curious about healing ancestral trauma, healing the wounds of immigration and diaspora, the healing practices of my people, and trauma held in the cultural body.
Pronouns: they, them, theirs, she, her, hers