Body As Wise Healer

✨ Longing is a compass ✨

& the heart is a homeland

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Relational Ecology for Healing & Growth

through Somatic, Creative, Trauma-Wise Methods

✨ hello, traveller

✨ Affirming and attuned support for folks of all forms of our human biodiversity ✨ 2S, Queer, Trans, NB, straight, cis, fluid, Neurodivergent, 2e, BIPOC, youth, adult, and Elder, couples, individuals, families, immigrant, refugee, First Nation, and Metis…

💚 feminist decolonial Earth-centered psychotherapy 💚

I weave somatic psychology with art, writing, play, movement, dance, sandtray, song, music, ritual & ceremony, grounded in neuroscience, wisdom lineages, and a liberatory ethos.

I center the teachings Earth offers - such as: titration, reciprocity, organicity, solidarity, cycles of rest and generativity, biodiversity, & kinship, and am grateful for Indigenous Wisdom Teachers for their mentorship in this approach.

I practice online, and in-person at The Center for Relational Ecology in Victoria, BC, Lekwungen Territory, as well as at eco-retreat centers in South Coastal BC.

Welcome to Body As Wise Healer

Psychotherapy, consultation, mentoring, & training, as well as enlivening classes, workshops, and retreats

What do you long for? What sustains you? & What do you yearn to bring into the world?

My name is Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry. I have specialized in creative somatic trauma therapy for 27 years and in teaching and mentoring for 30 years.

I believe in the wisdom of the body as an instinctive, inherent method of sensing the way forward. Body wisdom is a reliable guide, source, and wellspring for our vitality.

Learning to slow down to listen with our body wisdom is of great value for ourselves and our collective in these times of intensity. We can develop our intimacy with this trustworthy compass.

I believe in the kind medicine of attuned creativity, play, and soulfulness in psychotherapy and in teaching psychotherapy - these rivers offer great sustenance in the meaningful work of tending experiences of personal and collective suffering.

I love what I do in the world, and feel great respect for the courage of the folks I travel along with. I offer an approach that is gentle and focused, rooted in deep listening.

My work is Relational Ecology - a somatic way of considering how we practice being with - with ourselves, in our relations with one another, with Earth, with our lineages of Ancestors and descendants, with historical and contemporary social and political contexts and forces.

✨book time together✨

  • Joy is not meant to be a crumb

    Mary Oliver

  • "As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas"

    Audre Lorde

  • "Find freedom in the context you inherit."

    Lee Maracle

  • "sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem”

    David Abram

  • I am a feather on a bright sky; I am the blue horse that runs in the plain; I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water; I am an eagle playing with the wind. You see, I am alive, I am alive.

    Navarre Scott Momaday

Professional Location:

I am a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), an Approved SP Consultant, and SP Faculty Trainer, Licensed MFT in California and Registered MFT in Canada, Registered Clinical Counselor in BC, Registered Canadian Art Therapist and trainer of Art Therapists, Faculty with the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute’s Expressive Arts Therapy Program, and Faculty with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.

Specializations:

  • effective, soulful, and gentle trauma healing and grief tending

  • antiracist, decolonizing, feminist approaches to psychotherapy, consultation, and training

  • helping couples and parents deepen and grow the health of their relationships

  • supporting therapists in the creativity of their work and the health and vibrancy of their inner lives

  • supporting folks of all ages navigating neurodivergence and neurotypical structures and contexts, autistic burnout, & sensory-self-understanding

  • offering loving 2S Queer & Trans healthcare

  • racial identity development, racialization, culture, Ancestry,

  • working with the trauma of systemic oppression & microaggressions

  • working with women reclaiming rest, vitality, voice, embodiment, sexuality, peace, and power

  • men & grief, aggression, anger, shame, vulnerability, tenderness, and emotional needs

  • working with leaders & group facilitators

  • and, supporting practitioners and institutes in their social justice/decolonizing practices. ‍

I work with folks reclaiming their agency, relational connections, life-force, bodies, sexuality, gender, magic, artistry, and bandwidth.

I tend to work with folks who appreciate mindfulness, embodiment, creativity, Earth, playfulness, relationship, & social justice.

I work with individuals, couples, & families around reinvention of life after rupture, transforming conflict, and deepening connection.

I work with parents helping support their nervous systems and the supple creativity of their response to their children’s experiences, needs, and struggles. I work with many parents of neurodivergent and 2e folks.

I am a specialist in Infant-Preschooler Mental Health, biodiversity in child and youth development, women’s mental health, and neurodivergence...

“The most important thing each of us can know is our unique bundle of gifts and how to use them in the world….in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to become strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others….In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“She offers gentle guidance to your own unfurling, creating space for you to blossom in your own time and in your own way.

Leading by example, she illuminates an approach that celebrates aliveness, interconnectedness, sacred stillness, and the wild wonderful reaches of the self.

Katrina's enthusiasm and joy for fostering community and healing is a gift unto itself. "

— Julie Dillon, Artist

“Katrina is a bright and inquisitive woman committed to an inviting and caring approach, an avid learner with deep integrity. A body storyteller, sensitive photographer inspirator, and life singer. She embodies a practice of healing restoration that integrates a belief in deep connection and belonging to ourselves and each other.”

— Laia Jorba, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Faculty

“It is with great pleasure I introduce to you my good friend and Colleague Katrina. I was blessed to meet Katrina twenty-five years ago, when we participated in and completed a two-year Hakomi training program. In all my years I have never met someone so present, someone that can sit in the silence of the moment.

Katrina has the ability to create and hold a safe space while honouring the sacredness of each individual she works with. She has a beautiful way of building relationship and establishing heart felt trust.

I hold deep respect for the healing work she does.

As a proud Indigenous Woman, Mother and Kokum, I have always felt “seen” and validated by Katrina.”

— June Graham, Registered Clinical Counselor

✨book time together✨

Learn to accompany and explore your own experience as it is unfolding in the present moment, rather than freezing up, numbing out, fawning, fleeing, or feeling overwhelmed.

The present moment is where life is happening, and where we can create change.

Learn how to source into sensory comfort and pleasure, to orient with what is nourishing and enlivening for you, as a method to balance intensity, modulate your nervous system, and develop your dreams.

Connection with our personal and collective reSources and kinship deepens and sturdies our experience of life.

dear one, an invitation to your heart: come move, play, rest, restore, tend your body-mind and spirit on Salt Spring Island

dear one, an invitation to your heart: come move, play, rest, restore, tend your body-mind and spirit on Salt Spring Island

Body As Earth Song:

Residential Retreat

Movement-Based Expressive Arts and Somatic Inquiry in the collective, woven with Relational Ecology, to nourish vitality, voice, & vision.

6 days at Stowel Lake Farm, on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

August 18-23, 2006

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Katrina lives on the Ancestral, Traditional Lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Xʷsepsəm Nation and Songhees Nation. The lək̓ʷəŋən People have lived in these Lands for over 10,000 years, and continue to care for relations with this Land to this day.