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Whether you're healing from interpersonal, collective, or systemic oppression, Katrina's work meets you with compassion, presence, and the relational depth needed for meaningful, transformative, life-altering and deep-rooted, conscious, collective healing intention.

Her spiritually attuned and trauma-informed care can help you, your family and your community overcome the effects of stressful, adverse life events with a decolonial lens. Our spiritually integrated and decolonial approach to transformational care aims to help you heal from the psychological impact of trauma, including PTSD, anxiety, and depression - that keep communities oppressed, limited and controlled; retraumatized by continued, inhumane sovereign rules of the past.

Our commitment to you is to provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your experiences and develop strategies to move forward in a safe way, at your own pace and on your terms that make up your healing journey. We would be honored to walk alongside you.

We offer body-centered, psychodynamic, spiritually integrated trauma-informed care, honoring how trauma is unconsciously stored in the body and nervous system through blood cellular memory. Indigenous blood cellular memory, particularly in relation to trauma and intergenerational healing, is a topic that intersects fields of anthropology, indigenous studies, trauma theory, and the theory of epigenetic responses. 

By focusing on somatic awareness - introspection, grounding, movement, breath, mindful awareness, narrative restructuring and energy management strategies for highly sensitive people, Katrina will guide you to unlock physical tension, rebuild security in the self, restore agency and allow resilience to resurface again - your natural state of being.

Our decolonial practice actively resists Eurocentric norms by recentering indigenous and cultural spiritually integrated, eastern wisdom traditions, highlighting personal story, ancestral knowledge and co-creating mutual presence, land and environmental awareness and relational safety. This form of healing uplifts embodied storytelling, guided imagery, mindfulness, systematic energetic awareness and movement to gently release the survival, fight-or-flight energy trapped in the body and be reclaimed as body sovereignty.

This empowering and collaborative healing process:

• Builds interoceptive attunement and nervous system regulation  
• Gently releases trauma through micro-movements, breathwork, and resonance in the felt sense  
• Restores connection to self, community, land and environment while increasing conscious compassion for others  
• Supports freedom from patterns rooted in historical or generational family trauma
• Frees the body from trapped, physical, cellular memory of stress and creates new neurological pathways in the brain-mind-body-spirit connection  

Healing the Collective Memory:
 

• Genetic memory refers to the inherited information stored in your DNA. This is the biological blueprint that is passed down from your parents and dictates many of your physical traits, predispositions, and susceptibilities. In terms of trauma or stress, genetic factors may influence how resilient or vulnerable you are to certain conditions (e.g., genetic predisposition to anxiety or depression).  

• Genetic factors are fixed in a sense—they don't change based on life experiences. However, these traits may interact with your environment, impacting your health in ways that can either increase or decrease susceptibility to stress-related diseases. 

• Epigenetic memory involves changes in gene expression that do not alter the underlying DNA sequence itself but are influenced by external or environmental factors, such as trauma, stress, diet, and lifestyle. Essentially, epigenetics is the way our life experiences—especially chronic stress or trauma—can "turn on" or "turn off" certain genes

• These changes can be reversible and, importantly, they can be passed down to future generations. For instance, trauma experienced by one generation may impact the genetic expression of their children or grandchildren, even though the actual DNA has not changed. This means that while your genetic code may predispose you to certain conditions, epigenetic changes can affect how those genes express themselves based on your lived experiences.

• Genetic healing focuses on understanding and addressing the inherited traits that influence your physical health and emotional responses, while epigenetic healing works on shifting the environmental influences (e.g., emotional trauma, stress) that have altered gene expression.  

• Healing at the epigenetic level involves retraining the body and mind to release stored memories and emotional patterns that have been passed down or created through life experiences. This could involve therapies that reset the body’s neurological responses, allowing new, healthier patterns to emerge.

"Meeqwetch" (often spelled "miigwech") is a term from the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language, commonly used in Indigenous cultures of North America, especially among the Great Lakes and other Algonquian-speaking peoples.

It means "thank you" or "gratitude". It's an expression of appreciation and respect, acknowledging the kindness, generosity, or actions of others.

In many Indigenous cultures, gratitude is a central value, and words like "meeqwetch" are used not just in social exchanges but also as a way to honor relationships with the land, animals, and community. It can also be said in connection with giving thanks for gifts or blessings, both tangible and intangible.

Reference:

McLeod, N. (2007). Ojibwe in the schools: Teaching the language and culture of the Anishinaabe people. University of Minnesota Press.