Hello,
I'm Kath

I was on the table long before I was beside it

I was a sensitive kid who learned to turn the volume down in an unstable environment, and I carried this with me and the coping mechanisms that came with it for a very long time.

From the outside, it probably looked like I had it all together. I was working hard, building a career and doing my best to get on with life. Underneath it all, I was still in survival mode, and I had become very good at functioning while carrying things I hadn't really learned how to deal with. 

Talk therapy was a genuine lifeline, and I would not be here without it.

The story was not where I was holding it.

2009 was the first time Kinesiology crossed my path.

After finishing my degree, I somehow enrolled in a distance-learning Touch for Health Kinesiology course despite never having actually experienced Kinesiology myself. I studied the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine and found this fascinating. However, I didn't finish the course as I got swept up in my career, and for a long time, that was that.

Until years later, when Kinesiology found me again almost by accident, at a wellness festival. Watching my own body answer a question my mind could not crack open, something shifted. I was hooked.

But that moment alone wasn't what changed everything. It was simply where I started paying attention to my body instead of ignoring it.

What followed was over a decade (and still going) of deliberate, unglamorous recovery work. Rebuilding my foundation, my sense of self, my nervous system, my sense of safety, and so many other layers along the way.

Reiki had come into my life back in 2009 too, and I became a certified Reiki Practitioner in 2013. Emotions & Metaphysical Kinesiology came later, then Spinal Energetics.

Each one answered something the last had opened up.

I created Hill Tribe Healing to offer others what helped me find my way back: being deeply listened to, and gentle energetic work that helped me feel safe in my body and more connected to it. I know what it's like to be the one on the table, holding it all together and quietly hoping something will help. Now I get to be the one beside it.