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:
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First responders
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Children and families
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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:
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Major life transitions
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Trauma recovery
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Chronic stress or burnout
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Symptoms of anxiety, depression or shut down
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Medically unexplained symptoms of stress or pain
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Acute and chronic illness
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Grief, or loss
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Fertility psychosocial alignment, pregnancy, childbirth preparation, postpartum transitions
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Nervous system regulation and trauma release support for both mothers and infants
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Maternal identity changes and maternal wellbeing
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Child therapeutic play and family stress management coaching
She also supports individuals who want to optimize psychosocial alignment to prepare for:
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Surgery or injury healing recovery optimization
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Family fertility optimization
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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:
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Hospital-based clinical care
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Community private practice
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Aviation industry environments
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First responder healthcare
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Over a decade of family life coaching
Her work integrates:
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Somatic (body-based) processing
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Brainspotting and EMDR training
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Nervous system regulation
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Spiritually integrated psychotherapy
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Contemporary clinical knowledge
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Indigenous and global healing traditions that recognize the connection between mind, body, and spirit
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Decolonial focus
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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:
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Integrative and holistic
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Supportive and compassionate
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Interactive, co-collaborative and often playful and light-hearted
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Focused on nervous system relaxation and regulation
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Designed to help the body safely release stored stress patterns
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Culturally-sensitive and individual theological or spiritual perspectives welcome
Many individuals report experiencing:
Support for High-Stress Lives and High-Pressure Professional Roles
These individuals often seek support when experiencing:
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Stress or trauma recovery
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Burnout
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Chronic stress
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Feeling mentally or physically “blocked”
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Spiritual emerge/life transition stress
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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:
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High achievers to streamline time, efficiency and productivity
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Athletes to optimize psychosocial performance
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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:
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Survival responses in the nervous system from long periods of high stress or trauma related incidents
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Chronic tension in the body
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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:
What Happens When the Nervous System Regulates
As regulation improves, many individuals notice:
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Clearer thinking
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Improved health outcomes
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Reduced emotional reactivity
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Increased energy
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Sharper decision-making
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Increased compassion
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Improved relationships with self and others
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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.