“Working in the present moment, I support clients and colleagues to develop a curious, compassionate, and embodied listening presence. This spacious presence allows the psycho-biological impact of early shock, developmental/relational trauma, and attachment ruptures to be heard, felt, and renegotiated. As we experience this renegotiation, our truest and most essential selves begin to unfold, transforming our present-day relationships with ourselves, each other, and our world.” See training background below:
Kathleen earned her Certification, SEP, from the Somatic Experience Trauma Institute, SETI, in 2003. She is an SEI Approved Personal Session Provider and an Individual and Small Group Case Consultation Provider for Beginning through Advanced Levels of the three-year professional training. Besides assisting with 68 SE Trainings, since 2015, Kathleen has also assisted 9 Post Advanced "Touch Skills Trainings for Trauma Therapists" with Kathy Kain, Somatic Practice®. These have solidified and integrated more deeply into Kathleen's body, the essence of SE® and Somatic Practice® principles.
Kathleen completed Dr. Larry Heller’s NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) Training, on 3/31/19, for working with early developmental/relational trauma, taught by Brad Kammer, LMFT. She completed the Master Class taught by Dr. Larry Heller in April 2021, her first year of the Post Master Immersion Class with Dr. Larry Heller in December 2021, and her second year of the Post Master Immersion Class in December 2022.
Most recently, on 4/4/22, Kathleen completed the NeuroAffective Touch Foundation Training (NA Touch) with Dr. Aline LaPierre to deepen her understanding of work with clients renegotiating very early developmental and relational trauma.
In addition, Kathleen trained in Object Relations Theory (early developmental / attachment) pre-natal work with Dr. Ray Castellino, Biodynamic 700 hour ICBTCranial Sacral Training with John and Anna Chitty, Peter Levine's Post Advanced "Eye of the Needle," "Depression and Aggression" trainings, Organic Intelligence® Post Advanced Training with Steve Hoskinson, Kathy Kain's, (Somatic Practice®) Post Advanced "Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists," Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell's Somatic Resilience and Regulation (SRR): "Touch-Based Methods for Working with Early Developmental Trauma."
… and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom...
Anais Nin
