KIM CLAY
Kim has held a private practice for the past 17 years working with individuals, couples, and groups. Her background is rich and diverse encompassing formal education in psychology and healing art, to the study of ancient spiritual practices of shamanism and Mahayana Buddhism.
Prior to beginning her formal training in healing, she pursued her lifelong interest in studying the human condition through the creative art of acting. Kim holds a Master degree in Counseling Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Kim also works with Field Trip Health, a company that offers Ketamine assisted psychotherapy (www.fieldtriphealth.com). She offers psychedelic integration work in her private practice.
THERAPEUTIC/HEALING MODALITIES
PSYCHOTHERAPY
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, Kim supports clients working through a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Kim uses somatic based/mind-body practices in her work with clients including: mindfulness, embodied presence, and breathing techniques.
ENERGY HEALING
Kim is a Brennan Healing Science practitioner and former teacher at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Brennan healing combines psycho-dynamic work with body-centered energy awareness for personal and spiritual growth. It is a gentle, yet powerful holistic method used to balance and restore health to all levels of our being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
Kim is an Alexander Technique teacher certified by AmSAT (The American Society for the Alexander Technique), receiving her training in New York City from Rivka Cohen and Caren Bayer. In addition to her private clients she also teaches groups and leads workshops in the Alexander Technique.
FAMILY CONSTELLATION
As a Family Constellation practitioner, Kim facilitates individuals and groups. She trained in The Constellation Approach™ with Jamy and Peter Faust: Family Constellations enable you to work with the masculine and feminine energies present in your family lineages. Working within your ancestral soul field opens a process by which you can begin to clear unresolved conflicts and restore balance and peace in your family and in your relationships. “Our very essence is derived from the qualities passed onto us through our Family Lineage... we work to accept fully what we have inherited and to consciously evolve those aspects for the better.” ~ Faust Family Constellations
HAKOMI METHOD
Kim is trained in the Hakomi Method, which she incorporates into her therapeutic practice. Hakomi is a body-centered psychotherapy that assists clients in discovering and opening to unconscious beliefs and ways of being that are expressed in habitual patterns of thought, feelings and behaviors. Once made conscious, these limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns can begin to shift and change allowing for new choices and possibilities in how you navigate your life. Hakomi helps you to deepen your connection to your authentic self, your innate capacity to heal, and your basic goodness.
HERO’S JOURNEY FOUNDATION
Kim is a facilitator with The Hero’s Journey Foundation, a dynamic organization devoted to the transformational process of men and women through experiences of soul exploration using psychological, mythical, and spiritual traditions. The Hero’s Journey is a call to adventure and a life lived with deeper meaning and vitality. With this heart-based community, Kim is committed to helping women claim their true identity and awaken to their soul’s purpose in service of their life, family, community, and humanity.
“If you want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.”
~ Joseph Campbell