About Kathleen Dunbar, LMFT
I am dedicated to helping you find, support and be alive in whatever you are passionate about bringing forth in your life.
I’m dedicated to helping you find and come alive in whatever you are passionate about bringing forth in your life. I offer a huge palette of tools and a creative and creativity-inspiring soul. I offer you a down-to-earth palette which is kind, practical, creative, experienced, and works. I’ll help you reconnect to your most-alive self in the present moment through embodied, take-away practices that will help you thrive and fulfill your dreams. I’m also a performer and singer-songwriter with five albums, a writer, poet and artist. I know the thrill of expression and also what we must face in ourselves in order to truly express.
I’ll help you discover the satisfaction and meaning of living from your Wise Self with the pleasurable participation of your body. You’ll learn to to bring compassion and love to yourself, your relationships, and your life’s work and manifest your unique personal mission statement for your life.
When we weave together the practical, the imaginative, the heartful and a good laugh—we are unstoppable!
From the very beginning of my career I fell in love with the power, dignity, efficacy and joy of somatic and mindfulness-based healing practices. I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist with extensive training and over twenty five years' experience offering a variety of somatic and experiential modalities, neuroscience and mindfulness approaches. I also offer consultation, supervision, workshops and talks. I am a woman who loves and spreads the village life. I feel deeply connected with people and nature. I sing because I am made to sing. I offer myself as a healer because that is my path. That is how I came to this work of healing. I've learned transformation, respect and love from the inside-out. What I know in my bones and heart I offer to you.
Each time we meet I'll help you take with you:
a felt sense, practiced-in-session connection with your True Self
that will not only sustain you,
but surprise you, enliven you
and which you will use to build on and deepen into.
Finding the right therapist is an important decision. Your journey is an important one.
I offer you a down-to-earth palette which is kind, practical, creative, experienced,
and works.
You are a delight!
Reach out and call. The consultation is free.
415/668-5130
I look forward to speaking with you.
Credentials
Licenses and Certifications
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (2003)
- Certified Hakomi Therapist (2004)
Degrees
- California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, MA in Integral Counseling Psychology, 1997
- Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, BA in English Literature, 1981
Affiliations
- California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS)
- Certified Hakomi Therapist with the International Hakomi Institute
- Coming Home Project (2008-2020)
Supervisor 2006 – Present
- Counseling centers where I've offered supervision for trainees and interns include: Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, Center for Somatic Psychotherapy, Golden Gate Counseling Center, Grateful Heart, Integral Counseling Center at Church Street, Integral Counseling Center at Pierce Street, Liberation Institute, Marina Counseling Center, New Perspectives Center for Counseling, and Oak Creek Counseling Center.
Selected Training History
SOMATICS, HAKOMI, ATTACHMENT
- Certified Hakomi Therapist, 2004
- Two-Year Comprehensive Training in Hakomi Mindfulness Centered Psychotherapy, Hakomi Institute of California
- Psychophysical Therapy Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing, Bill Bowen
- Re-Creation of the Self, Jon Eisman
- Attending to Attachment Training, Julie Murphy, Hakomi Institute of California
- Group Leadership, Hakomi Institute of California
- Hakomi Couples Therapy, Rob Fisher, Hakomi Institute of California
- Responding to Life: Developmental Character Maps, Hakomi Institute of California
- Waking Up from the Family Trance, Julie Murphy and Manuela Mischke Reeds, Hakomi Institute of California
- Making Friends with Anger, Hakomi Institute of California
- Accessing the Divine, Hakomi Institute of California
TRAUMA/SENSORIMOTOR
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Professional Training in Resolving Trauma: 1 Trauma Themes
- Janina Fisher Sensorimotor Trauma Consult Group 2006-2011
- Working with Anger, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
PSYCHODRAMA
- Principles of Psychodrama, Armand Volkas
- Using Dreams, Metaphors and Images with Psychodrama, Sylvia Israel
TABLEWORK, ENERGYWORK
- The Tamura Method, Wynn Tamura
- Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Work, Charles Ridley
- Biodynamic Approach to Cranial Sacral Work, Allison Post, private teaching group
- Healing the Light Body, The Four Winds Society, full mesa carrier
- Energy Awareness and Healing, The Foundation Series, Bear McKay
- Wilderness Quest, Holos Institute
- Shamanic Drumming Circle
- Wilderness Quest, Dance of the Deer Foundation
CONTINUUM MOVEMENT PRACTICE
- Continuum and Trauma, Manuela Mischke Reeds and Linda Chrisman
- Continuum Movement Workshops, Manuela Mischke Reeds, Linda Chrisman, Lucia Miracchi and Beth Pettengill-Riley
FOCUSING
- Focusing, Anne Weiser Cornell
Diversity and Welcome to All
My therapy practice is very diverse. I serve adults of every race, nationality, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.
I want to tell you
that you are okay
I want to be
the flower for you
the small diamond water
of the fountain
with the mossy stones
the clear song of the bird
that breaks your heart
enough
so that you begin
to remember
it's okay to be alive
I know how hard it is
I have the scars, too
from the jagged monster
who chews its children
and leaves them
tense-boned and
half-alive
the monster of breaking
who fills small bodies
with knowledge so unspeakable
that the most golden of bells
can make no sound
but my love
if you keep hope
behind the wall
it is no good
no good
you have to walk out
into the open now
though every sinew
curdles
for bone and will
have done their work
they have brought you
here
but they are
useless creatures
when confronted
with kindness
what was given to you
long ago--
the sad old spasm
of protection--
with that you
can never know honey
you can never truly
deeply
laugh
oh my love,
those old wars
they are over and gone
instead
my warm hand is here
and I'll tell you
over and over
with the eloquent language
of my fingers
my breath
my eyes that have seen
death and lived
I will tell you gladly
that we are home at last
alive most deeply
in our own dignity
though the hired warrior
has kept you walking
let him lay down
in the garden's earth now
and sumptuously rot
kindly let him come apart in
worm and root
till his hollowness
has healed into
the soft den of an animal
you have always been
the untarnishable gold bell
and the crazy wild heart of its
star-made clapper
and it is time, my love
for you to
ring
-Kathleen Dunbar
Contact Me for a Free 30 Minute Phone Consultation
Phone
415/668-5130