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
The times we are living through are a lot. In times of immensity, solid, kind support is a very useful travel companion. Shall we walk together awhile?
I accompany folks in psychotherapy, consultation, training, and mentoring. I also hold classes, workshops, retreats, & events.
My work offers the nuance of Somatic Psychotherapy, woven with Play, the soulful depth of Arts Therapies, 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. I work with many fellows too. ✨
Therapy, Mentoring, & Consultation
Sessions Online
& In-person in Lekwungen Territory -Victoria, BC
online on zoom
in person either in the studio at the Center for Relational Ecology in the Gonzales Neighbourhood of Victoria, or outside in quiet wild places in the surroundings…
For the past 26 years, I have been specializing in tending trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief.
As an experienced practitioner I also specialize in supporting therapists - as their therapist, mentor, consultant, and trainer.
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 have taught with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, and the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute.
I am a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, an Approved Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Consultant, and Approved Trainer and Faculty of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I have been studying SP since 2003, and Hakomi since 1999; I hold approved 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 dance-movement therapy, movement-based expressive arts, drama therapy methods, Theraplay, sandtray, vocal improvisation, yoga, and Feldenkrais.
WHO DO I WORK WITH IN THERAPY?
I work with folks who appreciate mindfulness, creativity, ecology, relationship, & transformative justice work.
I work with individuals, couples, families around trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, illness, coming out, reinvention of life after rupture.
I work with folks invested in transforming conflict and deepening connection.
I work with many neurodivergent folks, especially ADDers and Autistics (including recently self-realized neurodivergent folks); Queer folks, Trans folks, artists, & out of the box beings; Black, Indigenous, People of Colour; kiddos and Elders…
I work with parents helping support their own nervous systems and the supple creativity of their response to their children’s experiences, needs, and struggles. I work with many parents of neurodivergent folks.
I am a specialist in Infant-Preschooler Mental Health, biodiversity in child and youth development, and women’s mental health.
I work with folks reclaiming their voices, bodies, agency, life-force, magic, artistry, and bandwidth.
“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
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.
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
