Somatic Therapy and Pastoral Counseling:

Healing for Mind, Body and Spirit

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Would you like to be able to understand what your body is trying to tell you? Do you want to feel more alive and connected? What would it be like for you to pause and listen to the wisdom of your body, the deep knowing you already posses?

My holistic approach to healing includes utilizing mindfulness and body awareness. As you are invited to tune into your body and notice what you feel, you learn to meet yourself with compassion wherever you are and something shifts. Your relationship to yourself begins to change. For me, it's been a feeling of coming home and learning to trust my feelings.

If you are one of the millions of people who live with pain on a regular basis, this work can help you learn to relate to your pain in a different way. Each of us wants to avoid pain. That's our natural inclination. Unfortunately, avoiding your painful experiences does not make them go away. They are somewhere inside of you, held within your muscles , tissues and organs, waiting to be heard, expressed and cared for with tenderness.

The holistic counseling I offer is a mind-body healing modality and a blend of the following:

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Body-Centered Psychotherapy

  • Pastoral Counseling and Earth Based Spirituality

  • Mindfulness and Movement Practices

I am particularly drawn to working with women, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, adolescents and spiritual seekers.

Befriending the full range your existence - the painful, the beautiful, and everything in between - is a path to deeper satisfaction and meaning. I would be honored to walk this path of deep acceptance for what is with you and to help you know you are already whole.

Whether or not you have ever tried mindfulness or practiced meditation, you can still benefit from a therapeutic approach that includes mindfulness. Here is one example: an invitation to pause and focus inward, noticing your body, thoughts and feelings. Let my voice guide you, moment-to-moment, into being with yourself in this way. What are you aware of as you try this simple practice?

Testimonial:

“Kate works from a place of intuition and heart. She has a deep understanding of the healing and transformational process and brings wisdom beyond her years to each session.” ~ Stuart Alpert, Psy.D, LCSW, Co-Founder of Hartford Family Institute

A Poem for You

Wild Geese

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You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

- Mary Oliver, from House of Light