🌱Welcome to The Root Of It Center For Well-Being. Thank you for being here!🌱

This is a space where you can feel safe, seen, heard and gently supported as you realign with your body’s organic potential to heal from the inside out - driving your whole-life success.

Whether you’re navigating stress, burnout, anxiety, trauma, your life’s purpose, physical acute or chronic illness (a nervous system stress response) or challenges within yourself or your relationships, you don’t have to move through it alone.

Katrina is now accepting new guests and looks forward to meeting you!

If this is your first time here, you are invited to begin your healing journey by scheduling a free 15-minute phone consultation by email to healing@therootofit.ca. This is a relaxed, informal way to meet Katrina, connect with her and see if her style, personality and approach to care are the right fit for your healing goals and intentions.

She offers 50-minute and 80-minute sessions via video or in person. 80-minute sessions are available by emailing healing@therootofit.ca to schedule directly with Katrina. You’re welcome to review 50-minute availability online and share your preferred dates and times with Katrina by email.

If you don’t see a time that works for you, please feel free to contact us directly via email and we will do our best to coordinate a time that works well in your schedule.

Contact Information:

🌱Email: healing@therootofit.ca

🌱Phone: 289-925-3377

🌱Website: www.therootofit.ca

About Katrina

Katrina DesRochers holds a Master’s-level education in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy and is a Certified Child Life Specialist in Pediatric and Family Psychosocial Care.

She brings over sixteen years of experience supporting:

  • First responders

  • Children and families

  • Women, mothers, infants

Her work focuses on stress release through nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and somatic processing.

What Katrina Helps With

Katrina supports individuals and families navigating:

  • Major life transitions

  • Trauma recovery

  • Chronic stress or burnout

  • Symptoms of anxiety, depression or shut down

  • Medically unexplained symptoms of stress or pain

  • Acute and chronic illness

  • Grief, or loss

  • Fertility psychosocial alignment, pregnancy, childbirth preparation, postpartum transitions

  • Nervous system regulation and trauma release support for both mothers and infants

  • Maternal identity changes and maternal wellbeing

  • Child therapeutic play and family stress management coaching

She also supports individuals who want to optimize psychosocial alignment to prepare for:

  • Surgery or injury healing recovery optimization

  • Family fertility optimization

  • Aiming to reduce fears, phobias or stress responses that affect confidence, vitality, daily living and relationships to self, others and life

Her Approach

Katrina blends experience from several fields:

  • Hospital-based clinical care

  • Community private practice

  • Aviation industry environments

  • First responder healthcare

  • Over a decade of family life coaching

Her work integrates:

  • Somatic (body-based) processing

  • Brainspotting and EMDR training

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Spiritually integrated psychotherapy

  • Contemporary clinical knowledge

  • Indigenous and global healing traditions that recognize the connection between mind, body, and spirit

  • Decolonial focus

  • Heart and compassion-centered care

This approach helps individuals gently identify and release patterns of stress held in the body.

What Sessions Are Like

Sessions with Katrina are:

  • Integrative and holistic

  • Supportive and compassionate

  • Interactive, co-collaborative and often playful and light-hearted

  • Focused on nervous system relaxation and regulation

  • Designed to help the body safely release stored stress patterns

  • Culturally-sensitive and individual theological or spiritual perspectives welcome

Many individuals report experiencing:

  • Renewed energy

  • Greater clarity

  • Improved emotional balance

  • A deeper sense of calm and connection

Support for High-Stress Lives and High-Pressure Professional Roles

These individuals often seek support when experiencing:

  • Stress or trauma recovery

  • Burnout

  • Chronic stress

  • Feeling mentally or physically “blocked”

  • Spiritual emerge/life transition stress

  • Existential crisis

Her work helps people of all ages reconnect with the mind–body relationship, restore sustainable energy, and strengthen focus.

Katrina also works with:

  • High achievers to streamline time, efficiency and productivity

  • Athletes to optimize psychosocial performance

  • Creatives/Entrepreneurs to channel artistic holistic flow freely and aligning with a supportive growth and abundance mindset

How the Transpersonal Healing Helps

Katrina supports individuals in gently identifying and releasing unconscious stress patterns such as:

  • Survival responses in the nervous system from long periods of high stress or trauma related incidents

  • Chronic tension in the body

  • Protective patterns linked to burnout or overwhelm

This work is not about reliving painful experiences or forcing breakthroughs.

Instead, it focuses on working with the brain and body in a way that feels:

  • Safe

  • Practical

  • Respectful of the body’s natural timing for healing

What Happens When the Nervous System Regulates

As regulation improves, many individuals notice:

  • Clearer thinking

  • Improved health outcomes

  • Reduced emotional reactivity

  • Increased energy

  • Sharper decision-making

  • Increased compassion

  • Improved relationships with self and others

  • Confidence that feels natural rather than forced

A Different Way of Healing

Many people describe this work as finally understanding why they felt stuck.

The process often allows healing to unfold in a way that feels natural, supportive, and sustainable.

Healing begins at The Root Of It — from the inside out.

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