Psychotherapy & Coaching

Two Distinct Paths,

One Unified Approach

Whether you're seeking psychotherapy or coaching, my approach remains consistent: relational, integrative, embodied, and informed my spirituality. Both paths honor the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—facilitating healing and growth through presence, safety, and attunement.

How I Practice

A Process-Focused, Body-Integrated Approach to Healing

My Philosophy of Care

My approach flows with rather than fights against our natural design to move toward integration, connection, and healing. I believe that restoration happens best within safety, relationship, and sacred timing. Just as the nervous system requires conditions of felt safety to come out of survival mode, the soul, too, needs gentleness and grace to unfold.

In our work together, we co-create a relational field where your body doesn’t need to brace or perform. This is where healing begins: not through force, but through attunement. By honoring the pace of your nervous system, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the protective parts that show up along the way, we move gently toward the deeper truths within you.

This work is:

Trauma-attuned: grounded in an understanding of how the body holds memory, defense, and longing

Polyvagal-informed: centered on supporting nervous system regulation and re-patterning through co-regulation, breath, voice, and movement

Parts-aware: honoring the adaptive roles of inner parts while fostering integration and healing

Faith-informed: when appropriate and you request it, we can bring your faith and spirituality into the process

I’m rooted in the body because the body is not separate from the soul—it’s the place where God dwells with us.
I’m centered in Christ because His Presence is the source of all true healing.
I uphold the primacy of presence because connection is what makes healing possible.

This is the ground I stand on.
This is the invitation: to come as you are and to let your healing unfold with the care, safety, and sacredness it deserves.

A Humanizing, Depathologizing Lens

I often challenge modern and cultural assumptions gently, respectfully, and creatively as a mindful Catholic committed to restoring dignity to our healing journeys. I bring a pioneering, trauma-informed, and deeply humanizing stance that does not reduce people to symptoms but honors the full story of their nervous systems, attachments, wounds, longings, and desires.

What Sessions Often Include

  • Body-based grounding and resourcing — practices like breathwork, orienting, or gentle movement to help your nervous system settle and build internal safety

  • Bilateral activation — such as tapping or rhythmic movement, to support integration and regulation across brain and body

  • Creative expression — like non-dominant hand drawing or image-making, to access deeper parts of your story beyond words

  • Inner healing prayer (when requested) — gently welcoming Jesus into painful or fragmented places through presence-based, Spirit-led prayer

  • Imaginative prayer and theological reflection — to help you reconnect spiritually and make meaning through the lens of your faith

  • Between-session practices — simple invitations to help you integrate insights, regulate your system, and practice new ways of being

Throughout our work, we move with titration (one small step at a time) and pendulation (gently shifting between areas of difficulty and safety), so that your healing can unfold at the pace your body, story, and spirit are ready for.

Which Path is Right for You?

Psychotherapy

(for California Residents)

As a therapist, I offer more than treatment—I offer accompaniment through the terrain of trauma, mental health, and emotional suffering. My clinical work is grounded in relational depth, spiritual attunement, and a body-centered awareness that unfolds slowly, safely, and in God’s time.

Psychotherapy is appropriate if you’re seeking formal support for symptoms related to:

PTSD or Complex Trauma

Anxiety or Depression

Dissociation or Attachment Wounds

Addictions or Unwanted Behaviors

Emotional Dysregulation or Chronic Stress

In this space, I provide diagnosis, treatment planning, and documentation as a registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor and Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, under the supervision of Dr. Sean Tobin, PsyD (#33387). While clinical, this work is far from cold or formulaic. My approach is one of reverence: to witness, honor, and gently guide the process of restoration within your mind, body, and spirit.

Just like in my guidance work, we move slowly. We listen deeply. And we tend to your story with gentleness, curiosity, and prayerful presence. The difference lies not in the heart of the work—but in the scope, responsibility, and structure of psychotherapy as a licensed mental health service.

Integrative Coaching

(for Worldwide Clients)

For those outside California or not seeking clinical treatment, I offer non-clinical integrative coaching and accompaniment focused on:

Body-centered integration & nervous system work

Deep inner healing through Catholic-integrated somatic parts work

My Incarnational Healing practices & framework

Integration of the whole person: body, mind, soul, and relationships

Like therapy, my coaching is a place of sacred listening and presence. But unlike therapy, my coaching is not clinical: there is no diagnosis, treatment plan, or medical record. Instead, this is a relational, somatic, and faith-informed space for discerning, integrating, and reconnecting to what’s stirring within you.

Coaching may be a better fit if:

You are not seeking treatment for a mental health diagnosis

You want to explore your faith, embodiment, and healing outside a clinical frame

You’re looking for a space that honors your story with spiritual and somatic care

You need accompaniment that is relational, restorative, and rooted in Christ, but outside the medical model

Here, I’m not your therapist. I’m your coach and companion. We walk together with compassion, humility, and a listening ear for both the nervous system and the whisper of the Holy Spirit. The process remains slow, sacred, and safe—just as it is in therapy—but the container is different.

In Summary

Both offerings share:

A deep respect for your story, symptoms, and Catholic spirituality

Somatic, parts-based, and trauma-aware practices

A slow, sacred pace of unfolding—not fixing

Integration of Catholic theology, prayer, and nervous system science

A commitment to presence over pressure

The main distinction is in the scope and intent:

Psychotherapy offers clinical treatment for mental health challenges and includes formal assessment, diagnosis, and progress planning.

Integrative Coaching offers non-clinical accompaniment for those seeking integration, clarity, or spiritual support outside the medical model.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out for a 15-minute clarity call or send me a message.

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Who I work well with

You might not have the perfect words for what’s wrong, but you know something’s hurting, stuck, or longing to be met.

I work well with people who are:

  • Healing from PTSD, Complex PTSD, trauma-related anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, and addictions

  • Trapped in cycles of overthinking, perfectionism, or self-abandonment

  • Feeling too much or nothing at all

  • Craving connection, but unsure how to stay in it without fear or shame

  • Sitting in pews or far from them, aching for more of God but unsure how to reach Him

  • Polished on the outside, but carrying wounds that feel unmet, unseen, or unbearable

  • Deeply empathic, often caring for everyone but themselves

  • Torn between longing for home and longing to escape

  • Frozen in fear of being fully themselves—yet yearning to breathe freely, to be loved as they are

I hold space for the disillusioned, the devoted, the curious, the burned-out, and the brokenhearted—because I’ve been there, too. And because I believe healing is possible, and belonging is your birthright.

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Testimonials

  • “My time with Kolbe has given me additional tools to practice life not in my head but in my body. Kolbe's therapy helped me understand how I was in survival mode and that those parts of me have messages for my growth.”

    anonymous client

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    “Kolbe creates a safe, open space that made it easy for me to be honest and dig deep. He helped me resolve the trauma occurring in my daily life. His patience, directness, and genuine care have been truly transformative.”

    anonymous client

  • "Our sessions not only shifted my perspective but also instilled a sense of resilience and hope. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to work with a therapist as exceptional as Kolbe.”

    anonymous client

  • "I’m deeply grateful for the profound impact Kolbe had on my life. His true presence, guidance, empathetic ear, and insight helped me navigate darkness and anger, empowering me to reclaim my life."

    anonymous client

  • "Connecting with my body helped me to step away from living in my head, find where I was stuck, and resolve the blockage. I'm now much more aware of how I avoid feelings and I'm less afraid to take the steps to listen to what is stored inside of me."

    anonymous client

  • "Kolbe's gentleness and trustful professionalism has deepened my healing journey."

    anonymous client

My Education

Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Divine Mercy University

Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Catholic Culture, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor Training

Certified Sexual Assault Counselor Training

Treating Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Training by Frank Anderson, MD

Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind: A Year with Bonnie Badenoch Training

Treating Trauma & Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Training by Jan Winhall

The Power of Polyvagal Training by Deb Dana

Modalities I draw from

Personalism

Person-Centered Therapy

Interpersonal Neurobiology

Polyvagal Theory

Focusing Psychotherapy

Internal Family Systems

Existential Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Somatic Psychology

Baars-Terruwe Method

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Gottman Theory

Emotionally Focused Therapy

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