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About

Meet Kathleen Naylor (she/her)

Working One on One

I’m a lucky woman, born with privilege and surrounded by folks who are kind, keen and up for adventure. I value rural living, community engagement and critical thinking.

My ‘School Days’ memory-keeper books remind me that as a child, I wanted to be a dancer or a teacher when I grew up. A few years ago, I unearthed a joke trophy I received during my summer job in high school – I’d been voted ‘most psychological lifeguard’. In hindsight, it looks like I was destined for somatic therapy and movement education!

A Bit About Me

And How I’m Moving Through

I worked in the field of community youth development for about fifteen years before returning to graduate school in counselling. Then I worked as 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 practice 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.

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Things you will very likely hear me say, at some point:

  • More than one thing can be true at the same time.
  • Don’t try to change everything at once.
  • The basics matter. (sleep, movement, nutrition, hydration, social connection)
  • That’s helpful…until it’s not.
  • We’re all a walking bag of vulnerabilities.

Education and Training

Formal Education and Professional Memberships

Selected Professional Development

  • Nia Brown Belt Practitioner and licensed teacher 2011-2024

  • Supervision of the RCT Candidate – Acadia University & NSCCT (2023)

  • Grief and Trauma Awareness – Serena Lewis, NSCSW (2022)

  • Attachment & Trauma Therapy for Adult Relationships – Diane Poole Heller (2022)

  • Intro to Internal Family Systems – Frank Anderson (2020)

  • Havening Protocols – Kate Truitt (2020)

  • Sexualized Violence: Healing-Centred Engagement – Avalon Sexual Assault Centre (2019)

  • Intimate Partner Violence in 2SLGBTQ+ Community – Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity (2019)

  • Vicarious Trauma, Self-Care and Resilience – Diana Tikasz (2018)

  • Resilience, Recovery and Art Therapy – Canadian Art Therapy Association (2015)

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (2014) 

Acknowledgement

As a settler living in Mi’kma’ki, I recognise with gratitude what it means to live and work here. I strive to live in right relationship with the land itself and with all other inhabitants. I believe we are living in a time of social awakening which is overdue, painful and slow. I want to contribute to healing that is not just focused on the individual, but on social systems and collective liberation.

For both individual therapy and movement classes, I reserve sliding-scale spaces for those who have been underserved and/or harmed by oppressive social systems.

My practice is shaped by feminist and anti-oppressive frameworks. My offerings are body-positive, queer and trans-affirming, and polyamory-positive. My own learning and decolonizing continues.