My Approach

“I've been working with Kara for more than six years, and have experienced consistent healing of deep and long-standing emotional issues. Kara has excellent training, well-developed counseling and coaching skills, and deep empathic and intuitive insights. The combination results in effective, compassionate coaching that facilitates healing and personal growth. I recommend her services to anyone serious about their emotional healing and growth.”

Shirley B.

I believe that the most important thing that I can offer my clients is a safe, trauma-trained space of compassion and understanding, and that is my number one priority in my work. Our time together is meant to feel nurturing and supportive and offers you a space meant to assist you in connecting more deeply with yourself than you may have been able to in the past.

My work is a combination of Somatic Experiencing, transformational coaching, shamanic healing, and elements of Buddhist and transpersonal psychology.

Who am I and what makes my work different?

I have been working with clients in a healing capacity since 2001 and I am just like you. I am a survivor of childhood trauma, an empath, and a highly sensitive person. I intimately understand the unique challenges that are an intrinsic part of feeling so deeply in an insensitive and oftentimes uncaring world. I have spent over five decades living with Complex PTSD and high sensitivity, the last 30 years on my healing journey, and the last 23 years studying my craft and working with clients, and I bring all I have learned to my work with my clients and students.

My work bridges the mystical and the mundane. I believe that it is important to have a grounded approach to healing and access to the spiritual, the mythical, the energetic, and the mystical when healing. In this way, all aspects of our being are included in the healing process.

I offer a path of self-healing…

In my work with others, I draw from all I have learned and experienced in my life. It took me decades to piece together the work I now bring you in this comprehensive form, and I like to think that I did the work of learning things the hard way and putting things together piece by piece so you don’t have to. I offer my clients tools, practices, and teachings taken from my three decades of healing and personal development, and I hope that you will benefit from that experience.

I consider myself to be a holistic healer, weaving together aspects of healing physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, somatically, and energetically. My work is a combination of somatic healing, core shamanism, energy medicine, parts work, transpersonal psychology, Buddhist psychology, Earth-based healing practices, and spiritual life coaching. I offer an alternative, body-mind-spirit, outside-the-box approach to healing trauma and navigating the ups and downs of high sensitivity. Our work together is intuitive and unique to you and is designed to meet you where you are in each moment. We may utilize some or all of the tools mentioned above in our work together, but at the end of the day, the primary transformative agent is the medicine of feeling held in compassion and understanding so that you can blossom into the fullness of who you are.

My work picks up where therapy typically leaves off.

Generally speaking, conventional therapeutic approaches only take us so far and do not often account for the deeper, more subtle levels of being - the spiritual,  intuitive, creative, cyclical, archetypal, mythical, energetic, somatic, and our connection with the natural world. My work fills in those gaps. Most of my clients reach out to me when they have reached their limits with therapy and are ready to go deeper, and into dimensions of healing that they may not yet have touched upon.

Through finding a sense of safety, home, and belonging in our bodies, healing our traumas, coming to terms with our past, alchemizing our shadows, grieving our losses, recovering the sacredness of our intuition and creativity, healing the rifts both within and without, and in living in right relationship with all of life, we make ourselves available for our light to shine through in all that we do.

Who I Work With

Clients typically come to me when they are ready to move to the next level in their lives…usually when they have hit a wall with more traditional routes of healing, when they are in a major life transition, or when they are in some sort of pain.

My work is best suited to those who have already been in therapy, coaching, and/or have done a fair amount of personal healing work in the past. Because this is deep work, it is not well-suited to those new to healing and coaching. It is designed specifically for those who are committed to personal transformation and spiritual growth. My ideal client is someone who is in a stable place in their lives, and looking to go to the next level of their evolution so that they can show up in a better way in their lives, relationships, and work.

Please note that I do not work with those in active addiction to alcohol or drugs or those struggling just to get by in the day-to-day. If this sounds like you, I recommend reaching out to a qualified therapist.

This work is a blend of healing and coaching, and so requires that you are willing to show up and do the work, to take personal accountability, and to be teachable and ready to change, evolve, and grow.

I offer an inclusive, trauma-trained space for my clients and students.