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Let’s keep forging a new path forward for our mental health services:

One that helps people deepen their sense of belonging to this world, come home to their breathing bodies, and feel better for it. Because everyone deserves to fall in awe with life itself – over and over and over again.

While I am trained in and use numerous psychotherapeutic techniques, I rely primarily on ancient teachings and the wisdom of nature to understand our human condition, the root of our suffering, and the path out of it.

Yoga Therapy

Yoga allows us to cultivate greater self-understanding and to wake up out of our mindless habits and conditioned patterns. Yoga Therapy is the individualized application of yogic tools (meditation, postures, breathing techniques) and philosophy to address a person’s specific symptoms and goals.

Nature-Based Therapy

Nature-based therapy is more than a walk-and-talk. It’s an intentional practice of coming into deeper connection with our own true nature and that of our loved ones, by being in relationship with the natural world. We may engage in nature-based play, art, movement, as well as somatic and contemplative practices.

Somatic Experiencing

The terms trauma, trauma-informed, and trauma healing have all become very commonly used in today’s mental health landscape. What we are really talking about is the pervasive level of stress and fear that people hold in their being well beyond the initial event(s) that were overwhelming for our nervous system.

Hi, my name is Katherine. I’m a registered psychotherapist, certified yoga therapist, mental health educator, and consultant. I’m a social justice advocate who believes that – with everything we know today – we can do better in how we conceptualize and deliver mental health treatment, After twenty years of working in the field across Canada, I’ve learned the power of simple things: connecting with the natural world, listening, being present, sharing joys, sharing sorrows, moving our bodies, breathing more freely.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Whether you are a potential therapy client, a course or workshop participant, or a professional looking for guidance, my intention is the same: to support you in showing up for yourself, for others, and for the world, as your best, most authentic self. 

Land acknowledgement: I first want to acknowledge that I’m still learning and fumbling my way through this. It’s important to me that my land acknowledgement come from an embodied understanding and not from a place of being concerned about how I’m perceived by others.

Ottawa is built on un-ceded and un-surrendered Algonquin and Anishinaabe territory. I am aware and grateful for the the privilege I have of freely venturing in and out of the natural landscapes that surround me every day. I honour and respect all those who walked this land before me and those who it was stolen from.