Longing is a Compass

the Heart is a Homeland

“Joy is not meant to be a crumb” (Mary Oliver)

hello, traveller

✨ Biodiversity is Earth Wisdom. ✨

I offer support that is affirming and welcoming for all our variations: young folk and Elders, BIPOC and white folks finding their way into decolonizing/antiracist practice, Neurodivergent, Queer, Trans, NB, Femme, masc, & cis male and woman folk. Come as you are.

Welcome to Body As Wise Healer

adventures through psychotherapy, consultation, mentoring, and training

My name is Katrina Ilsedóttir Curry. I am an artist of nuanced listening, creating conditions for precise healing and learning. I practice accompaniment rooted in creativity, somatics, neuroscience, playfulness, and mystery.

I have been practicing psychotherapy for over 26 years, through an embodied approach that is gentle, focused, spacious, and kind.

I wonder what you are longing for? What sustains you? What is tangled or needs tending? I wonder what are you conjuring or dream of conjuring?

We are living in immensely stressful times, a context of great uncertainty and fear. It is valuable to have sturdy travel companions in such times. Would you like to walk together awhile, into the terrain that matters to you?

I’m a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, Approved SP Consultant, and Trainer of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy; a Registered Art Therapist and Trainer of Art Therapy; a Couple and Family Therapist, Clinical Counselor, and a Movement-Based Expressive Arts Practitioner.

Some folks come and talk, others come and sense into their body responses, play, make art, write, explore sound, song, and sandtray.

Can you come and just talk? Yes, you can indeed.

Online and in Victoria, BC

✨book time together✨

WHO  DO  I  WORK  WITH?

I work with folks reclaiming their voices, bodies, agency, relational connections, life-force, 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 trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, illness, coming out, reinvention of life after rupture.
I work with folks invested in 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 folks.

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

I work with many Queer & Trans folks, artists, & out of the box beings; Black, Indigenous, People of Colour; kiddos and Elders…

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

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."

— 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 over twenty 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

  • "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

  • Joy is not meant to be a crumb

    Mary Oliver

✨book time together✨

“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

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 sourcing into what is comforting, nourishing, enlivening for you, can be a way to balance intensity, modulate your nervous system, and develop your dreams. Connection with our personal and collective re.sources 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 Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. 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.