About
Unbound & Kate
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
-Albert Einstein
I help people with chronic stress and muscular tension feel better. As a massage therapist (TX MT135100), my frequent tools include fingers, hands, and forearms.
As a human, my frequent tool is presence.
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My sessions are a team effort - client and therapist together - exploring the musculoskeletal system and how it responds to input. Often that means pressure, motion, stretch. Clients arrive reporting tension in all sorts of places.
That tension always has a story. Here are some:
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NECK & SHOULDERS
My posture is terrible.
I hunch over at a computer all the time
This is just where I carry my tension
LOW BACK
Years ago I had a disc issue
When I work out it acts up, but I can't give up the exercise.
Worse in the morning
HEAD & JAW
I've had headaches since I was a teenager
It always starts HERE and wraps around
I catch myself clenching when I'm working
I'm supposed to wear a night guard
I feel one side click now
the WHOLE BODY
Things are good...just need a reset
Time for a tuneup
I'm stiff and sore. Bad sleep and stress?
There's just a lot going on now.
Do these stories sound familiar?
Hi, I'm Kate
Our tension has a story...
And so do I.
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For years, I was a teacher. Public school, charter school, supplemental services and private tutoring. Math, science, reading, a touch of social studies. Early childhood through 12th grade. Mostly children with developmental differences who benefited especially from specialized learning plans (In public school, "special ed.")
I consulted with parents, speech therapists, social workers, probation officers. I gave out school supplies, cold weather gear, cheers for effort, high fives on the regular, and learned to consciously see possibility and opportunity for growth in each little human. They inspired me. And boy, was it challenging.
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Vision
Empower a thriving community of people willing to engage in self inquiry, grounded in their bodies, relating to themselves and each other with care, kindness, and connection
Vision
Empower a thriving community of people willing to engage in self inquiry, grounded in their bodies, relating to themselves and each other with care, kindness, and connection
Meanwhile...
I dealt with stress through a rigorous yoga practice. And eventually continued my undergrad Asian religions study with a master's in traditional Chinese medicine. That's when I really discovered bodywork and realized mind-body practice was something I wasn't interested in...it was something inextricably part of my life and had been for awhile. I renewed qigong practice (started back in Colorado in 2005) and became a Texas licensed massage therapist (MT135100).
What does this mean for you?
STRATEGY
BRANDING
DESIGN