I can help you find your flow.
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed?
Let’s get you moving through.
Learning the skills for moving through will help you:
- respond to life’s stressors with greater flexibility and less reactivity.
- feel more connected to self, others, community and the natural world.
- find more motivation and vitality.
- enjoy more rest and ease.
- be less ‘swept away’ by memories of traumatic events or relationships.
You can do this – and I can help you learn how.
What Do I Mean by Moving Through?
What really fires me up is helping people come into relationship with the wisdom of their bodies. Learning somatic skills in therapy to better know your own nervous system is a game-changer for personal well-being. Getting in touch with joyful movement in the company of others will expand your body confidence and connection to community. These somatic tools truly support us to keep moving through everything life brings along. All of my offerings are trauma-informed and incorporate the principles of polyvagal theory. You can work with me in individual therapy, group movement classes or occasional workshops or special events.
You’re in Safe Company
Meet Kathleen
I worked in the field of community youth development for fifteen years before returning to graduate school in counselling. Then I had the wonderful learning of being a counsellor in post-secondary education for 14 years. Moving Through is my next chapter: for honing my skills, for offering more time and care to individuals seeking healing, and for serving my community with joy and justice.
These are hard times to be a human, if you’re paying attention. The impacts of social polarization, colonialism and capitalism mean that many of us can become disconnected from the sources of collective well-being that allow us to survive and thrive.
I know that learning to listen to the wisdom of my body is helping me to navigate all of this. I’ve courted burnout in the big systems. I use every tool I share in therapy and in movement classes – because they help me, too. I’m scared and excited. I feel alone and supported. I am endlessly fascinated by what the nervous system stores, how it acts in our self-protection, and what else is possible when it truly senses more safety.
Workshops & Events
(Not therapy, but therapeutic!)
I really love teaching and group facilitation. A few times a year, I create (or co-create) special events that focus on aspects of wellness that are universally valuable. These events will introduce a concept and allow us to explore it through experiential learning – self reflection, group discussion, movement or creative expression. Please note these are experiential learning events, not group therapy.