RELATIONAL ECOLOGY
✨ longing is a compass ✨
Creative Care for Grief & Trauma
Alchemy for Relational Tangles
Embodied Arts for Cultural Shapeshifting
EcoSomatic Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, & Movement-based Expressive Arts
Liberation Smithery - Tending the personal and the collective
hello, traveller
How’s your heart these days? And, how’s your breath moving?
Welcome to Body As Wise Healer
✨ A Neurodivergent, Queer, Trans, BIPOC, Femme centering space ✨
Here, you’ll find the nuance of Somatic Psychotherapy woven with the playfulness and soulful depth of Arts Therapies. Here you’ll find the thrum of Relational Ecology, Dance-Movement, & the the radical tenderness of Decolonizing Queer Feminist Liberation Praxis.
Mmmove through contraction, collapse, and anxiety. Accompany grief. Metabolize the pain. Free your longing into motion.
Rrroot into relaxation, collaboration, and creative engagement with Life. Deepen confidence. Become.
Become closer kin with purpose and playfulness.
I’ve been a somatic psychotherapist for over 26 years; I absolutely love this creative work. I work with couples, individuals, families, and groups.
I help folks who are gripped become free to move. I help folks release old tangles clogging their life. I help folks uncrumple, ground and center, dare.
I’m an Advanced Practitioner, Consultant, and Trainer of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, trained also in Hakomi, dance-movement therapy, and movement-based expressive arts. I am a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada, and Registered Clinical Counselor in BC.
I offer psychotherapy, mentoring, consultation, training, and thrum hum fun: collaborative improvisational creative events.
Therapy, Mentoring, & Consultation
I work with folks of all ages
I work with folks who feel afraid, anxious, tentative, depressed, in grief, at a loss, overwhelmed, bored, collapsed, numb, longing, or ready to do something different.
I help people reclaim their bodies, voices, desires, sense of wholeness and inherent belonging in Life.
I help folks unfold their own unconventional, authentic, out-of-the-box ways of being.
I help people connect with their Ancestral sources of Wisdom and Health.
I help folks strengthen and supple their playful and creative life-force.
I help folks become more skillful improvisers.
I help folks make ceremony with their grief.
I help people metabolize and push back against the crushing impacts of trauma and stress, including the impact of painful multigenerational, familial, and cultural forces of interwoven systemic oppressions and colonial harms.
I help couples untangle entrenched patterns of conflict and disconnection, to rekindle wildly nourishing curiosity about one another and find a way into sustaining harmony, loving, and playfulness in their relations.
I help folks practice and develop embodied leadership and reinvent their careers into something more creative.
Learn to accompany and explore your own experience of Life, as it is unfolding in the present moment, rather than freezing up, numbing out, fawning, fleeing, or feeling overwhelmed.
The present moment is the only place where we can create change, and there is So Much Magic that unfolds when we slow down with curiosity, notice here and now, and bring our shared embodied creativity to what is emerging.
Voyager, you do not have to travel alone.
I believe that embodied creativity is ancestral cultural wisdom. Our creative expression is a core source of health, healing, and belonging.
Creativity and Somatics help us heal what is injured and unfold what is longed for. These methods weave playfulness and care through our relationships and connect us with source.
Sessions Online
Walk & talk sessions in-person in Victoria, BC
“We have to consciously study how to be tender [with ourselves and] each other until it becomes a habit….”
“Katrina's enthusiasm and joy for fostering community and healing is a gift unto itself.
She offers gentle guidance to your own unfurling, creating space for you to blossom in your own time and in your own way.
Leading by example, she illuminates an approach that celebrates aliveness, interconnectedness, sacred stillness, and the wild wonderful reaches of the self."
— Julie Dillon, Artist
“Katrina is a bright and inquisitive woman committed to an inviting and caring approach, an avid learner with deep integrity. A body storyteller, sensitive photographer inspirator, and life singer. She embodies a practice of healing restoration that integrates a belief in deep connection and belonging to ourselves and each other.”
— Laia Jorba, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Faculty
“It is with great pleasure I introduce to you my good friend and Colleague Katrina. I was blessed to meet Katrina over twenty years ago, when we participated in and completed a two-year Hakomi training program. In all my years I have never met someone so present, someone that can sit in the silence of the moment.
Katrina has the ability to create and hold a safe space while honouring the sacredness of each individual she works with. She has a beautiful way of building relationship and establishing heart felt trust.
I hold deep respect for the healing work she does.
As a proud Indigenous Woman, Mother and Kokum, I have always felt “seen” and validated by Katrina.”
— June Graham, Registered Clinical Counselor
“The most important thing each of us can know is our unique bundle of gifts and how to use them in the world….in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to become strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others….In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
dear one, an invitation to your heart: come move, play, rest, restore, tend your body-mind and spirit on Salt Spring Island
dear one, an invitation to your heart: come move, play, rest, restore, tend your body-mind and spirit on Salt Spring Island
2026 Body As Earth Song:
Vitality, Voice, and Vision, Residential Retreat
Movement-Based Expressive Arts in the collective, woven with Soul Motion Contemplative Dance, Relational Ecology, Authentic Movement, and Gentle, Improvisational Somatic Inquiry
6 days at Stowel Lake Farm, on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
August 18-23, 2006
Relational Ecology
We are woven with one another.
We share a home - this living web of ecological relations.
The web of our relations need our attention.
Wisdom lineages and Science teach that Life is relational.
How we inhabit our life ripples through the whole.
Wahkohtowin is a Cree word: kinship, Life is relational, All Beings are our Relations - including you, me, ladybugs and barn swallows, bumblebee and Dahlia, Fern and Cedar…
Interbeing - a name offered by Thich Nhat Hahn for codependent arising. All beings rely on all other beings: such as birds moving nitrogen between marine and terrestrial ecologies, nourishing both ecologies - including us.
Ubuntu, in Bantu African: ‘I am because we are’ - we are interconnected, able to exist because of all the many layers of relationship that is life. Biodiversity is health; we’re stronger together.
Relational Ecology speaks to the fundamental reality of our belongingness with one another and as part of the whole of biodiverse Life of Eairth, which Joanna Macy called The Great Reciprocity at the Heart of the Universe.
‘Relational Ecology’ is a name to refer to methods of creative relational practice for the collective health and flourishing of all beings.
These methods are rooted in shared listening through our senses, reflection, collaboration in holding a fuller view of complexity, deep ecology, supple modulation of nervous system responses, metabolizing ruptures, radical tenderness, and creativity.
Call and response. Warm-hearted and life-affirming.
I rest in the knowing that our lives matter, that our movements can have generative impacts beyond what we know.
Solidarity is powerful praxis.
Kind attention helps unfold places where we have been compressed.
Our human hearts, our embodied psyches, need ritual, ceremony. We need practices of solitude and collaboration. Practices for mending, releasing, ending, beginning, grieving, celebrating. Practices for roots and wings.
We are living within polycrisis. We are a species who have waged violent battles against one another through time; and we carry serious reactivity from all the violence. We are wading through collective dynamics of domination, exploitation, denigration, and gaslighting. We are amid the trauma of climate emergency.
We are also Life breathing, groundswell rising, rivers flowing, wind dancing - we are also warm hearts who thrive in kind places. We are voices to sing together, hands to clap rhythms, carrying practices of solidarity and lineages of wisdom.
We can make meaningful magic for personal and collective health.
I am interested in how we deepen our wisdom and supple-heartedness with each other, how we repair the torn fabric of our relationships.
I am in interested in how we nourish our vitality and collective capacity for loving, creative responses to the times we live within.
Katrina lives on the Ancestral, Traditional Lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. The lək̓ʷəŋən People have lived in these Lands for over 10,000 years, and continue to care for relations with this Land to this day.
This is unceded land, never willingly surrendered, land stolen through broken promises. This relational injury is still aching.
We’re all needed in the healing. Our shared curiosity and creativity are necessary in this work of tending our shared relational wounds.
These beautiful Coast Salish Lands, surrounded by Ocean, are inhabited by many animal kin: Bear, Cougar, Wolf, Salmon, Orca, Humpback, Raven, Eagle, Cedar, Douglas Fir, Arbutus, Garry Oak, and Calla Lilly.
Katrina (she/they) is First-Generation Canadian, with ancestors from Denmark, the South-West of England, and Scotland. Unilaterally Deaf, Queer, white-bodied, and playful in gender orientation, she is a student of Indigenous teachers of decolonization, actively learning about complexity, curiosity, and shared, loving, collective improvisations for healing the wounds of the history.