Katie Down

Specialties

Trauma - Trauma can happen to anyone at any time and it is often something we don't know how to deal with afterwards. Trauma-informed therapists and experts tout EMDR as the number one method of helping clients to reduce symptoms and find relief while processing traumatic events safely. EMDR is a somatic practice (body-mind) and is highly effective in calming the nervous system, grounding, and creating a safe environment for processing difficult material and emotions.

Anxiety - Anxiety is something we all experience at times in our lives and it mostly exists in our ideas about future events or things that might happen in the future as a result of something that happened in the past. Through breath, somatic awareness and mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, anxiety symptoms can become better managed and greatly reduced.

Depression - Depression can be attributed to on-going issues that seem insurmountable, causing us to feel hopeless and despairing. We will work together on identifying the root causes of depression, how to manage the symptoms of depression, and release repressed anger, disappointment, and even trauma. Through mindfulness-based stress reduction, visualization, EMDR and creative arts, we can work together to begin the reduction of symptoms towards a sense of contentment and wellbeing.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is a technique created by Buddhist teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn. It has been proven to quickly and affectively help with managing stress, creating a sense of calm and wellbeing, and acceptance of what is happening in the moment non-judgmentally. Together, we will work with MBSR techniques to help you reduce stress and anxiety and manage these areas that may be affecting areas of your life.

Music Therapy - Music is inherent in us in our breath and heart-beat. We are born through the essence of sound. Music enables the inexpressible when words fail us, and Music Psychotherapy is the practice of bringing music into our verbal processing, providing new pathways for expressing ourselves and creating a safe space for the release of emotions, fears, anxieties, and stress. Music and sound can provide a safe container for deep feelings to occur within the session.

Artists' mental health - As a performer myself, and a daughter of artists, I understand the stressors that come with in a career in the arts. Together, we will work towards anxiety around goal-setting and focus. We will look at negative beliefs and patterns that may be presenting themselves, and through mindfulness, creative visualization and creative play, begin to unlock areas that feel stuck or trapped in order to move through psychological obstacles and towards a sense of flow and connection.