Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Massage Therapist in WA and AZ, Kathleen has been practicing holistic, systemic psychotherapy for 38 years and SE for 23 years. She is an SEI-approved provider of personal sessions, individual consultations, and small group case consultations for all levels of SE training. Kathleen is also an AAMFT nationally approved Supervisor. She currently assists Somatic Experiencing Advanced Level Trainings and Kathy Kain’s Touch Trainings for Somatic Therapists, “TST.”
Our body’s innate intelligence can guide the renegotiation of accumulated autonomic nervous system stress, no matter when or how it originated. Personal transformation unfolds over time. As our awareness and capacity (for being in each moment with curiosity and compassion) increase, our “felt sense” of ease, relaxation, and confidence often increases.
The following trainings/assisting experiences have helped Kathleen integrate more deeply into her own body the essence of SE and Somatic Practice principles: Training in Massage Therapy and Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy; Post graduate training in early developmental / attachment models; Experiential learning of pre-natal work with Ray Castellino; Training in Neuro Affective Relational Model, NARM, for working with Attachment and Early Developmental Trauma; Training and then assisting with Kathy Kaine’s “TST” for trauma therapists; Training in Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell’s Somatic Resilience and Regulation Trainings for Early Developmental Trauma “SRR”; Training with Dr Aline LaPierre in NeuroAffective Touch, NATouch (for early developmental trauma); Assisting Peter Levine with Advanced SE trainings in the early years, as well attending his Master Classes: “Depression & Aggression” & “The Eye of the Needle”; Training in Raja Selvam’s Integral Somatic Psychology; Organic Intelligence “OI” trainings with Steve Hoskinson; and especially, Assisting at 68 national and international SE trainings, and 9 of Kathy Kain’s Touch Skills Trainings for Trauma Therapists, “TST.”