RELATIONAL ECOLOGY

✨ longing is a compass ✨

Creative Somatic Psychotherapy, Consultation, & Training

Embodied Improvisational Arts for Cultural Shapeshifting

hello, traveller

Welcome to Body As Wise Healer

I offer psychotherapy, mentoring, consultation, and training, as well as classes, workshops, retreats, & events.

For the past 26 years, I have been specializing in tending trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief.

I work with many therapists, as their therapist, as well as a mentor, consultant, and trainer.

I work with many neurodivergent folks, especially ADDers and Autistics (including self-released neurodivergent folks).

I also specialize in work with couples invested in transforming conflict and deepening connection, intimacy, and loving playfulness. I work with many parents, helping them relaxation, and creativity in responding to their children’s experiences, needs, and struggles. I am a specialist in Infant-Preschooler Mental Health, biodiversity in child and youth development, and women’s mental health.

My work offers the nuance of Somatic Psychotherapy, woven with the playfulness and soulful depth of Arts Therapies and Play, the thrum of Ecology, the magic of Dance-Movement, & the wisdom of mysticism and Liberation frameworks.

✨ I offer a Neurodivergent, Queer, Trans, BIPOC, Femme, & woman-centering space ✨

  • Joy is not meant to be a crumb

    Mary Oliver

  • "As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas"

    Audre Lorde

  • "Find freedom in the context you inherit."

    Lee Maracle

  • "sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem”

    David Abram

  • I am a feather on a bright sky; I am the blue horse that runs in the plain; I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water; I am an eagle playing with the wind. You see, I am alive, I am alive.

    Navarre Scott Momaday

I love the creative work of psychotherapy and mentorship, and have devoted the past 26 years to learning how to help folks find supple center, sturdy relations with ground, and creative response in these challenging times of modern life.

I am a Certified Advanced Practitioner, Approved Consultant, and Trainer of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and have been studying this method since 2003. I offer Sensorimotor Psychotherapy trauma trainings in North America and Japan through the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.

Following my curiosity in embodied healing, over the past 26 years I have also trained deeply in Hakomi, dance-movement therapy, and movement-based expressive arts, yoga, vocal improvisation, creative drama methods, and play.

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.

Therapy, Mentoring, & Consultation

✨book time together✨

I work with:

  • folks of all ages

  • individuals, couples, families, and groups

On the following themes:

  • fear, anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelm, boredom, collapse, numbness, longing, trauma

  • relationships of all kinds

  • professional development, rejuvenation, reinvention, and creative projects

Sessions Online & In-person in Victoria, BC

  • online on zoom

  • in person either in the studio at the Center for Relational Ecology in the Gonzales Neighbourhood, or walk and talk sessions outside in quiet wild places

“We have to consciously study how to be tender [with ourselves and] each other until it becomes a habit….”
— Audre Lorde

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 sourcing into what is comforting, nourishing, enlivening for you, can be a way to balance intensity, modulate your nervous system, and develop your dreams. Connection with our personal and collective re.sources deepens and sturdies our experience of life.

“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

“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

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

August 18-23, 2006

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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.