Kathy Cox Disclosure Statement

I have been surrounded by counselors and sources of wisdom, compassion, and challenge via family, friends, nature, and mentors all my life. Counseling will be my third vocation. Before becoming a counselor, I worked as a professional gardener, and prior to that, I worked teaching adult learners English as a Second Language. These past vocations and decades of life experience instilled in me the desire to co-create safe, supportive spaces for learning, living, and connecting.

It can be so hard to be a human and it’s natural to need support. Modern life is full of a variety of demands and at times, can feel overwhelming and confusing, trigger limiting beliefs, and stir up so much more within us and between us. A counseling session may involve inviting curiosity and compassion to explore the challenges you are facing, or we may utilize tools that help ease stress or serve in befriending the natural occurrences of anxiety or fear. Together, as we meet what unfolds, we will invite and draw from the inherent strengths and wisdom within you, work with what arises, and find tools or practices for you to use in everyday life.

While attending to what brings each client to therapy, I draw from mindfulness-based experiential approaches as guiding forces in the counseling process. I have training in the experiential Hakomi Method and an interest in the work of Internal Family Systems and Emotionally Focused therapies. I see value in drawing from and integrating different approaches in the work of counseling. Ultimately, my aim in the counseling process is to use interventions and tools that align and support wherever you are in your journey as well as where you desire to go or be.

“The ultimate purpose of inquiry is that it allows us to pause. In the space of a pause, the truth can shine through.” Tara Brach

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