Body As Wise Healer
Longing is a compass
and heartbeat and breath our homeland
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Relational Ecology for Healing & Growth
A Liberatory Somatic, Creative, Trauma-Wise Approach
✨ hello, traveller
Welcome to Body As Wise Healer
Psychotherapy, consultation, mentoring, training, & vitality programs
My name is Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry. I am an Elder Creative Somatic Psychotherapy Practitioner. I have specialized in somatic and expressive arts approaches to relational psychotherapy for over 27 years. I’m a trauma specialist, extensively trained in the complexity of relational neuroscience, and mystical approaches, to modulation of the nervous system, healing of relational injuries, tending of dissociation, and reclaiming of life, voice, embodiment and belonging in healthy nourishing love relations.
I help heal tangles, uncoil tension, enliven, embolden, and return to center and wholeness what has been lost and fragmented. I work with individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations.
I have been teaching, mentoring, and running groups for 33 years, and specializing in women’s health for 34 years.
I travel with a well-honed compass to support folks in complex and meaningful work.
Katrina Curry, LMFT, RMFT, RCAT, RCC
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California
a Registered Couple and Family Therapist in Canada
a Registered Canadian Art Therapist
& a Registered Clinical Counselor in British Columbia
💚 feminist decolonial Earth-centered psychotherapy 💚
attuned support for human biodiversity
2S, Queer, Trans, NB, straight, cis, fluid, Neurodivergent beings unmasking or coming out of burnout, 2e, BIPOC, youth, adult, and Elder, couples, individuals, families, immigrant, refugee, First Nation, Metis, white bodied folks decolonizing, women rooting into their potency, folks stepping out of the box, all of us unpacking or reclaiming our anger, dancing with our fears, and reweaving tenderness…
somatics
I am a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, an Approved Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Consultant, and Training Faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
I have been training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Dr. Pat Ogden since 2003; I trained in Hakomi, Body Centered Psychotherapy from 1999-2003.
Over the past 27 years I have trained deeply in dance movement therapy, movement based expressive arts, feldenkrais, developmental movement, and meditation; I am a Registered Yoga Teacher and Elder contemplative dance teacher of Soul Motion Lineage.
Expressive Arts therapy
I am a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, and Trainer with the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at the Vancvouer Art Therapy Institute.
I have also been faculty with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, the BC School of Art Therapy, and the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute.
I completed my art psychotherapy graduate training at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, 1999-2001. Over the past 27 years I have studied expressive arts in a variety of forms, modalities, and countries, exploring: improvisation in voice, sound, dance, movement, theater, play, visual arts, photography, ecological contexts, and crafts. Creativity is a foundation of life, an ancient aspect of who we are, a source of comfort, a homeland, and a source for activism and social change.
💚 feminist decolonial Earth-centered psychotherapy 💚
attuned support for human biodiversity
2S, Queer, Trans, NB, straight, cis, fluid, Neurodivergent beings unmasking or coming out of burnout, 2e, BIPOC, youth, adult, and Elder, couples, individuals, families, immigrant, refugee, First Nation, Metis, white bodied folks decolonizing, women rooting into their potency, folks stepping out of the box, all of us unpacking or reclaiming our anger, dancing with our fears, and reweaving tenderness…
My work is Relational Ecology - our wise inner longing, our whole selves, in our relations with one another, with Earth, with our lineages of Ancestors and descendants, with historical and contemporary social and political contexts and forces. I offer an approach that is gentle and focused, rooted in deep listening and the inherent creative life force that runs through us all.
For the past 33 years I have travelled a path of focused learning, practice, and ripening with the mentorship of wise Elders, to support collective flourishing. I have been studying and practicing in the currents of many rives:
Feminist Queer Liberation Praxis, Decolonizing, Radical Dharma, The Work that Reconnects, Nordic & Celtic Shamanism, Couples Therapy, tending Complex Trauma, the Theory of Structural Dissociation (parts work), EMDR, Healing Conflict with Courageous Tenderness and NVC, Indigenizing, Whakohtowin, NonViolence, Consent, Infant Preschooler Mental Health, Child and Family Therapy, Play, Embodiment, Voice, and Song, and many more beautiful loving creative ways of finding center, ground, and vibrancy.
Come tend, release, grow, flourish, learn, and play.
“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
Building Possibility Together
I believe in the soulful wisdom of the body and our kinship relations with Earth - reliable sources of comfort, navigation, and wellsprings for vitality.
We are living in complex and turbulent times. Learning to slow down to listen with our body wisdom offers us a trustworthy compass in the uncertainty. In such overwhelming times, collaborating with all of our sources of information - our emotions, our thoughts, memories, instincts, body sensations, and spiritual sensing helps us find a way home and through.
I believe in the kind, exuberant, and tender medicine of attuned creative play in psychotherapy and in teaching psychotherapy. Embodied creative play offers great sustenance in the meaningful work of tending experiences of personal and collective suffering.
Methods for Beauty Magic:
I weave somatic psychology with art, writing, play, movement, dance, sandtray, song, music, ritual & ceremony, grounded in neuroscience, wisdom lineages, and a liberatory ethos.
I center titration, reciprocity, organicity, solidarity, cycles of rest and generativity, biodiversity, & kinship, and am grateful for Indigenous Wisdom Teachers for their mentorship in this approach.
I practice online, and in-person at The Center for Relational Ecology in Victoria, BC, Lekwungen Territory, as well as at eco-retreat centers in South Coastal BC.
Creating close kinship with our longing is at the heart of finding our way into the terrain that matters the most to us.
What do you long for? What sustains you? & What do you yearn to bring into the world?
“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.
Katrina's enthusiasm and joy for fostering community and healing is a gift unto itself. "
— 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 twenty-five 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
Learn to accompany and explore your own experience as it is unfolding in the present moment, rather than freezing up, numbing out, fawning, fleeing, or feeling overwhelmed.
The present moment is where life is happening, and where we can create change.
Learn how to source into sensory comfort and pleasure, to orient with what is nourishing and enlivening for you, as a method to balance intensity, modulate your nervous system, and develop your dreams.
Connection with our personal and collective reSources and kinship deepens and sturdies our experience of life.
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
Body As Earth Song:
Residential Retreat
Movement-Based Expressive Arts and Somatic Inquiry in the collective, woven with Relational Ecology, to nourish vitality, voice, & vision.
6 days at Stowel Lake Farm, on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
June 10-15, 2027
