Real stories from real clients

My clients expect big results and get them. Here’s what they gain—

Self-connection in demanding circumstances

The ability to experience ease and joy in difficult times

Clarity, energy, & equilibrium without eliminating challenges

Resilience and the ability to recover quickly from setbacks

Fluency navigating generative tension and conflict

Resources for supporting the ongoing development of these skills

Nirali Desai

Dean of Students, Outer Coast

Specific results achieved:

  • stopped succumbing to persistent stress and recovered agency to care for herself amidst work challenges

  • shifted out of depletion to respond to colleagues and others out of an authentic sense of generosity and abundance

  • built resiliency that rebounded through her professional and personal life

  • experienced a newfound sense of peace, wholeness, and dignity

Leticia Landa

Executive Director, La Cocina

Specific results achieved:

  • overcame exhaustion and built deep reserves for responding to workplace crises with compassion and equilibrium

  • shifted out of a cycle of perpetual urgency into a sustainable pace that energizes her to stay engaged in long-term challenging work

  • transformed her somatic response to difficult situations

  • developed her capacity to foster joy and playfulness at work and home

Founder, Affordable Housing Development Co.

Yasmin Tong

Specific results achieved:

  • found the mental space and support to take her company to the next level

  • developed a daily mindfulness practice, enabling more strategic decision-making

  • shifted a habit of putting intense pressure on herself, generating ease, resilience, and joy

Sabine Ronc

Senior Manager, Strategy Consulting

Specific results achieved:

  • developed skills to acknowledge and transform stress, leading to greater daily presence and ease

  • shifted a habit of reacting to difficulty with urgency, opening new opportunities for problem-solving and collaboration

  • connected with feelings of awe, fueling creativity and deepening capacity to support others

Racial Justice Educator & Keynote speaker

Jacqueline Battalora

Specific results achieved:

  • transformed judgments of self and others to fuel her work with love

  • shifted a habit of reacting to her own anger and began responding compassionately to herself and others

  • freed herself from work and relationship stress, generating ease, relaxation, and more deeply connected relationships

Asst. Professor of Medicine & Primary Care Physician

Meghan Geary

Specific results achieved:

  • learned how to communicate with colleagues in high-stakes situations in a way that models care for self and others

  • shifted a habit of reacting to her frustration and time urgency and began responding in a way that created new opportunities for authentic collaboration

  • let go of perfectionist tendencies in personal and professional dynamics, generating calm, relaxation, and spaciousness

  • The biggest change is the willingness to drop into my body. I remember the first time we worked together I mentioned that when I'm invited to feel my physical sensations, a professional part of my dancer-brain activates, and it's difficult to be present. That has almost completely gone away and I feel WAY more able to connect to what is happening for me somatically. I feel less confused about specifics, i.e. whether or not I want to become a parent, whether or not I need to make a career change…In the last two times we've worked together something big shifted in my life. I was not necessarily looking for a significant romantic relationship the last time we worked together, but it arrived. Similarly, when I began opening myself up to the idea of a career change, a new opportunity in my current career arrived. I think there is something unnameable about the way in which openness and self-reflection creates space for opportunities to appear.

    - Annie Kahane, Performer and University Lecturer

  • My work with Katy has helped draw forth and clarify goals and processes. She does this through asking critical questions, encouraging practices aimed at furthering my exploration, and holding me accountable for committing to practices that are important to self-understanding. It is an evolving process that is sensitive to changes that occur along the way.  It is also very much a relationship – I experience Katy as attuned, sensitive to changes that happen for me, and able to adjust to take me to the next place I need to go.

    - MJ, Director of Ivy League Psychology Program

  • I booked my first session with Katy hoping that she would help me to organize my chaotic life as a consultant and single parent. Katy has helped me to strengthen my own center and knowing, so that I no longer get knocked over by every wave of overwhelm. The somatic work she has done with me has given me insights into long-held beliefs from a perspective I have never been able to take on my own. Equally as powerful as the session itself are the beautifully written notes and practices she gives me capturing each session. The notes are both a mirror that allows for a deeper reflection and a window into seeing my experience with greater equanimity and compassion.

    - Jenna Chandler-Ward, Author, Educator, Podcast-host