Nourishing creative transformation
We all carry an innate capacity for healing and growth.
This generative inner rhythm is a living current within all beings.
Stressful life events, collective traumas, systemic oppression, and ancestral wounds have a cumulative impact. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by these forces, our nervous systems frazzled and tangled, our hearts heavy. Sometimes we doubt our belonging. Sometimes we hide even from ourselves.
And even then, our innate inner rhythm for healing and growth remains alive at our deepest center, like a drum beating, or an ember glowing.
We can evoke and strengthen this wise inner healing current, move through what is tangled, and restore supple roots and wings.
Voyager, there is no time like the present to re-member who you are and you do not have to travel alone.
We are deeply relational beings. So, in the midst of all that is challenging, attuned creative accompaniment can make a great difference.
“Serious mind is always exhausted, play mind always has energy.”
-Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
I help folks metabolize trauma, find ground and center, unfold meaning and purpose, and weave creative responses to challenging circumstances. I provide generative mentoring for therapists and practitioners.
My work is a blend of creative arts, embodiment practice, neuroscience, relational ecology, wisdom traditions, a pedagogy of interiority, and social justice praxis for the project of personal and collective healing, growth, liberation, and transformation.
“Joy is not meant to be a crumb”
— Mary Oliver
“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
“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."
— J., an Artist
“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
celebratory, affirming support for folkx who are Queer, Trans, GenderQueer, Fluid, NonBinary, Neurodivergent, Disabled, Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, women in the most spacious sense of the word, men seeking to understand structural power and privilege and to tend their way of practicing masculinity, white folkx unpacking whiteness, folkx wanting to become more engaged in transformative social justice and decolonizing, folkx reweaving wholeness, therapists seeking mentoring, depth, personal growth, restoration and playfulness. I work with teens and adults.
“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer
"The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast" Ursula K. Le Guin
"The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language." - David Abram
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves" - Mary Oliver
“The result of being colonized is the internalization of the need to remain invisible.” ― Lee Maracle
“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer "The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast" Ursula K. Le Guin "The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language." - David Abram “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves" - Mary Oliver “The result of being colonized is the internalization of the need to remain invisible.” ― Lee Maracle
My approach is a weaving of a myriad of lineages:
dance, movement, art, theater, song, poetry, play, and somatic inquiry
Earth Wisdom - ecological philosophy and psychology, Indigenous Truths shared by generous Indigenous Feminist Elders
arts-based therapies
somatic psychology - Hakomi and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
polyvagal neuroscience theories
cross-cultural, transpersonal, wisdom perspectives
immersions in Radical Dharma and Embodied Social Justice
Queer-feminist pedagogy and praxis
solitary time with forest, ocean, and mountains
Accompanying people in healing and growth over the past 24 years I have learned beyond a doubt that each one of us is a profoundly complex, tender, & magical life-force, an important, valuable part of the whole. I’m curious to learn more about your voyage and to accompany you, along the way.
Tend what needs tending. Release what is bound.
Heal old injuries, metabolize trauma, and grow a more supple, responsive way of living.
Nourish your capacity to respond to the storms of life with greater nervous system flexibility.
Clarify your boundaries, learn how to say No.
Reclaim your Yes.
Deepen a sense of belonging, strengthen courage, gather your own wisdom.
Root into embodied presence and relations with Earth and Sky.
Come to know who you are behind the social mask, the deeper truths of who you are and what wants to emerge.
Free your playfulness, or your necessary ornery thistle self.
Gather the fragments into wholeness.
Warm sunlight and fresh wind can flow through all the cracks bringing comfort and a clear sense of aliveness.
Grow deeper roots in your life, knowing that you are not alone.
Clear through what is tangled, find pathways to ground and center, learn to evoke ease and clarity.
Tend anxiety and sorrow, replenish nervous system flexibility, regrow your felt sense of belonging, aliveness, and engaged creative flow.
“Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.” David Abram
Come relax into the no-rush rhythm of landing into your own breath, your own bones, accompany your heart beat and the subtle movements of your living with the knowledge that you belong, that you are enough, that you are alive: creative energy longing to unfold - life longing for life. Come be.
“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”