Gentle Healing, Lasting Light.

Katrina DesRochers - MA (SCP), BA, BEd., CLSt.Dip.,CCLS

Pronouns (She/Her) 

• Masters in Spiritually-Integrated Care & Psychotherapy
• Mind-Body-Spirit Somatic Processing Practitioner
• Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS - Family Psychosocial Care). 

Hello, I’m Katrina—a spiritually integrated, somatic processing clinician, life transformation coach, and Certified Child Life Specialist with a deep passion for neuro-psychosocial healing across the lifespan.

With over 16 years of clinical experience, I have supported individuals, caregivers, children (ages 0-18years), families, young adults, first responders, healthcare and aviation professionals through trauma, grief, and complex life transitions. My work bridges clinical neuroscience knowledge, somatic and brain-based processing methods, spiritual and relational wisdom ideology, and a grounded, co-creative approach that honours each person as the expert of their own healing. I intentionally work to soften traditional power dynamics, creating a person-centred, safe and decolonized healing space rooted in dignity, agency, and collaboration.

My professional path has spanned education, aviation and emergency response training, frontline hospital trauma care—including emergency departments, pediatric surgical operating rooms, burns and plastics rehabilitation—and community family care. For the past 11 years, I have led a family-centred, spiritually grounded private practice supporting adults and children through life transformation coaching, with an expansion into spiritually integrated psychotherapy in 2025. 

As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I bring a refined capacity for intuitive attunement, deep presence, and compassionate responsiveness to each therapeutic relationship.

I view healing as a deeply personal and nonlinear process—shaped by attachment styles based in early life experiences, nervous system patterns, relational dynamics, and the body’s stored stress and adaptive responses. Together, we create a safe, non-judgmental space to gently process life’s challenges, release held stress and trauma from the body, and reconnect you with your innate resilience, clarity, and capacity to thrive in alignment with your purpose.

My approach integrates somatic and brain-based modalities (including EMDR and Brainspotting), neuroscience-informed and neuroplasticity-based frameworks, global spiritual philosophies of mind-body-spirit alignment, heart-centered communication, and the transformative power of creativity, play, and curiosity—supporting a shift from survival toward expansive, embodied living.

At The Root Of It, healing is a collaborative journey. Together, we work to restore inner balance and empower individuals of all ages to rediscover joy, meaning, passion, and their organic capacity to heal from the inside out.

I am continually inspired by witnessing what becomes possible when people live authentically—aligned with their nervous system, values, and inner truth. That is where transformation unfolds.