Hi, I’m Kathryn

Coach | Facilitator | Mother of Two

For most of my life, I felt like I was at war with myself.

Not in ways that were obvious from the outside. I was capable, driven, spiritually curious. I did the work, therapy, yoga, personal development, meditation. I understood myself, probably better than most.

And yet something still felt fractured. In my relationships, my body, my sense of worth. No matter how much I learned or achieved or healed, I couldn't outrun the feeling that something was fundamentally wrong with me.

I kept adding more… More tools. More effort. More insight. More trying.

It wasn't until I stopped trying to fix myself and started actually being with myself that something shifted. Something underneath all the striving finally got to breathe.

What I discovered wasn't a new technique. It was a way home to the parts of me I'd been managing, suppressing, and abandoning for years. To a solid ground beneath the noise that had always been there.

I've built House of Self from that place. As someone who knows the terrain, and knows how to walk with you through it.

Work with me
Work with me

You are the sky. Everything else, it's just the weather.

– Pema Chödrön

The Invitation

You're here because something inside you knows there's more.

More to you. More to life. More than holding it all together while quietly falling apart inside.

On paper things look fine, maybe even successful. You're smart, self-aware, emotionally literate. People come to you for support, you're the one who gets it.

And yet you're barely keeping up. There's a low hum of exhaustion that doesn't go away, a disconnection you can't quite name and patterns you understand completely yet still can't seem to shift.

You've been surviving, managing your feelings, performing okay-ness, and you're ready for something different.

I work with women who are done carrying the weight of their own self-management. The ones who second-guess themselves, get caught in shame spirals, over-give in relationships, and feel like imposters in their own lives despite everything they've built and everything they know.

Here's what I want you to know, everything you're looking for is already inside you. The clarity, the self-trust, the groundedness, the peace. It hasn't gone anywhere. It's just been buried under years of managing, performing and holding it all together.

That's where we start, not by adding more, but by returning to what's already there.

Let's work together →
Let's work together →

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Most of us have been taught to approach healing like a project. Fix the pattern. Identify the block. Try harder. Do more. Understand it better.

That approach has its place, but it also has a ceiling.

Real change tends to happen in the pause. In the moment you stop analysing and start actually being with what's here. In the shift from doing to yourself to being with yourself.

At the heart of my work is Internal Family Systems, a model that understands we're all made up of parts. Inner protectors, wounded places, and beneath it all, a calm and clear Self that has never left. IFS doesn't ask you to fix or manage your parts. It asks you to meet them. With curiosity. With compassion. Without shame.

That's where the real movement happens.

  • My work draws on:

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Attachment theory and relational healing

    • Somatic and embodiment practices

    • Yin yoga and contemplative traditions

    • Presence-based and spiritual inquiry

    • Wisdom traditions

    All in service of one thing, returning to the truth of who you already are.

Whether you're in a season of grief, burnout, transition, or transformation, this work meets you there.

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Training & Experience

  • Bachelor of Science (Health Science) — Curtin University

    Masters in Occupational Therapy — Curtin University

    Certifications & Training

    Thinking Heart 16-Week IFS Intensive — David Stern & Sigrid Kulkowitz

    Nuance and Attunement in IFS — Stephanie Mitchell

    Foundations of IFS — Stephanie Mitchell

    Richard Schwartz In-Session IFS Masterclass Series — Healing Trauma & PTSD

    Frank Anderson's IFS Trauma Treatment Program — 4-Month Online Intensive

    IFS Institute Online Circle Program

    NARM Complex Trauma Training

    Spiral Practitioner — The Spiral School of Awakening

I bring both formal training and lived experience to this work.
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