Kate Holly (she/her)

Kate Holly (she/her) is currently working towards her Master's in Professional Mental Health Counseling at Lewis and Clark College, with a special focus on ecotherapy and creative/experiential practices and working with neurodivergent and gender expansive clients. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, a BFA in Theater and Filmmaking from The Evergreen State College, a certification in life coaching from Braver Coach, and is an ERYT-500 trauma-informed yoga instructor with over 20 years of experience integrating yoga and somatic practice into her work with both individuals and groups. She is the founder and former owner of Yoga Refuge, and is the creator of Yoga Conservatory, a 200-hour yoga teacher training program with a focus on Yoga for Self-Love.

As a counselor, Kate brings a narrative, collaborative, and strengths-based approach to the process. She is attentive to the cultural stories and power dynamics that influence how we experience our problems, and supports clients to feel empowered within the circumstances of their lives. She is delighted to be working at Heron Hill, where she can integrate talk therapy with direct, embodied experience, playful and creative processes, and relationship to the natural world, which she sees as vital to healing and growth.

She is passionate about supporting neurodivergent clients across the lifespan, and particularly enjoys working with clients on career development, self-identity and self-esteem, parenting and caregiving challenges, executive function skills, healing from trauma, and navigating political/climate anxiety in a changing and uncertain world.

Kate enjoys spending time with her children (ages 10 and 13), playing the ukulele, collecting books that she may or may not ever read, getting outside in all kinds of weather, and creative self-expression in its many forms.