CATHERINE FOLEY

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Thank you for considering me as a guide along your sacred way. Grounded care, compassion and trust are the foundation of all that I offer. Wherever you are on your journey, I am dedicated to supporting you in your innate ability to heal your life, and find the freedom and will to shine your true light in the world.

I am a Reiki Master and intuitive channel; an earth-based spiritual healing artist and ceremonialist; and a community herbalist, flower essence practitioner and aromatherapist. In my apothecary, I formulate high vibrational plant remedies for healing and transformation, including flower essences, botanical mists and anointing oils.

I am skilled in holding integrated, embodied and attuned space for awakening and transcendence. My approach is informed by mindfulness and somatic awareness; and I draw on my intuitive gifts and many sacred tools across my offerings—including Reiki and divination, journeying and visualization, ceremony and ritual, flowers and plants, song and sound, smoke and all the elemental forces of nature—to clear and balance energy, shift and release patterns, and invigorate, align and uplift you on all levels.

In my herbal wellness, flower essence and aromatherapy consultations, you will be heard deeply, and receive practical insight, and protocols for holistic healing that meet you where you are. I specialize in support for the nervous system and PTSD, anxiety, stress, mood balance, grief and depression; and healing from autoimmune disease, Lyme Disease, migraines, fatigue, pain and other chronic conditions. All of my formulations are blended and bottled in ceremony, sealed with energetic potency and loving intention.

I am guided by the healing powers of softness and gentleness, presence and embodiment, equanimity and integrity—and always a bit of humor. A session with me is deeply restorative and will awaken you to yourself.

As my healing art evolves, I have found the universe is aligning me most often with the birthing person, the creative professional and the warrior—learn more on my Sacred Pathways page. All are welcome, affirmed and celebrated regardless of race, color, sex, disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, age, or socioeconomic status.

I am currently working toward my Master of Science degree in Couples and Family Therapy at University of Wisconsin-Stout. I also am studying herbal medicine at the CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. Discover more about my lineage and qualifications below, and visit my page on Accessible & Accountable Wellness for information about my sliding scale offerings and the roots of my practice.

To learn more about Catherine’s personal journey of healing, read her blog POST, The Warrior Path.

MY LINEAGE

THE FARMLAND OF MY GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER EDWARD LOUGHRAN IN DONAGHMORE, COUNTY TYRONE, NORTHERN IRELAND

We are the land. We are the Earth.

I was initiated in these core truths early on, born into a family with profound reverence and sacred respect for the landscapes we inhabit; instilling in me a deep “land ethic”—the everyday responsibility of engaging with nature mutually and with care.

These truths came down the line to me. My paternal grandmother and poet, Catherine Coleman Foley, grew up helping Aldo Leopold restore the land at his shack on the Wisconsin River in Sand County; and went on to create her own farm—on the land of the Potawatomi, Odawa, Menominee, Miami and Sioux tribes—at the most northern tip of the enchanted Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.

My maternal grandparents, Wilma and Howard Hoxie, also joined the Back to the Land movement, taking over the historic Quontquont Farm in Whately, Massachusetts—on the land of the Nipmuck, Wabanaki and Pocumtuc tribes—where they established rolling fields of “pick-your-own” apples, peaches and berries, and reared a barn full of cows and sheep.

These landscapes—and their stewards—were monumental fixtures of my upbringing, and are forever saturated in my cells.

This heritage of land relationship goes much further back to the ancestral pastures of my great, great, great grandfather Edward Loughran in Northern Ireland; and to many more ancestors from the country of farmer-poets so keen on the language of this Earth—Ireland.

It is with the long steeping of this lineage that I carry forward in my healing practice a true reverence for the body of our whole being—the landscapes within us, the winding miles we have walked on this Earth and the sacred place we hold within the map of the universe.

THE FARMLAND OF MY GRANDMOTHER CATHERINE COLEMAN FOLEY, SISTER BAY, WISCONSIN

PARTNERSHIPS & COLLABORATIONS

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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

  • BEGINNING ENERGY WORK FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE

    Porter Green, Psy.D., Live Oak Chicago

    2022
  • ADVANCING HUMANISTIC, EXISTENTIAL & TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE

    University Professors Press

    2022
  • INTRODUCTION TO NON-MONOGAMY & RELATIONAL DIVERSITY

    Porter Green, Psy.D., Live Oak Chicago

    2022
  • YOGA & EMOTIONS

    A. G. Mohan & Indra Mohan, Svastha Yoga

    2021
  • 15TH INTERNATIONAL HERB SYMPOSIUM

    United Plant Savers

    2021
  • PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH ADVANCED PSYCHOTHERAPY

    Dr. Kristy Christopher-Halloway & Dvora Entin, Postpartum Support International

    2021
  • PERINATAL MOOD & ANXIETY DISORDERS: COMPONENTS OF CARE

    Birdie Meyer & Tiffany Conyers with Dr. Marlene Freeman, Postpartum Support International

    2021
  • INTRODUCTION TO HAKOMI MINDFUL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

    Melissa Grace, Hakomi Institute

    2021
  • CELTIC STUDIES: MYTH, TRADITION, SPIRITUALITY

    Sharon Blackie

    2021
  • ADVANCED MASTER PROGRAM ON THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMA

    National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

    2020
  • TWO-YEAR SHAMANIC TEACHER TRAINING

    Sandra Ingerman, Sedona Mago Center

    2020
  • BACH FLOWER ESSENCE PRACTITIONER

    Dr. Lauren Nappan, Bach Flower Institute

    2019
  • REIKI MASTER TEACHER

    Joanna Crespo, New York Open Center

    2018
  • WEEKEND HERBALISM PROGRAM

    7Song, Northeast School of Botanical Medicine

    2018
  • SHAMANIC CURSE & THOUGHTFORM UNRAVELING

    Cindy O'Connor

    2018
  • THE APOTHECARIST HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING PROGRAM

    Suchil Coffman, Herbal Medics Academy

    2018
  • SHAMANIC DEATH & DYING

    Tony Allicino with Lara Green

    2018
  • SHAMANIC EXTRACTION

    Tony Allicino

    2017
  • THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF HEALING: ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA CONGRESS

    ISC International, PlayStation Theater

    2017
  • THE POWER OF AWARENESS

    Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield, Sounds True

    2017
  • 30TH NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S HERBAL CONFERENCE

    Camp Wicosuta, NH

    2017
  • REIKI MASTER

    Joanna Crespo, New York Open Center

    2017
  • ADVANCED SHAMANIC JOURNEYING

    Sandra Ingerman, The Shift Network

    2017
  • PLANT SPIRIT HEALING PRACTITIONER

    Pam Montgomery, Partner Earth Education Center

    2017
  • SOUL RETRIEVAL

    Sandra Ingerman, Joshua Tree Retreat Center

    2016
  • SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER TEACHER

    Llyn Roberts & Stacey Gibbons, Shamanic Reiki Worldwide

    2016
  • GREEN MEDICINE HERBAL TRAINING

    Peeka Trenkle, New York Open Center

    2015
  • SHAMANIC JOURNEYING

    Sandra Ingerman, The Shift Network

    2015
  • AROMATHERAPIST, LEVEL ONE

    Amy Galper, New York Institute of Aromatherapy

    2014
  • CULINARY NUTRITION BASICS

    Natural Gourmet Institute

    2014
  • THE ART OF HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING

    Robin Rose Bennett, New York Open Center

    2014
  • SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER PRACTITIONER

    Llyn Roberts & Stacey Gibbons, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

    2014
  • 21ST GREEN NATIONS GATHERING HERBAL CONFERENCE

    Frost Valley YMCA,NY

    2014
  • REIKI ONE & TWO

    Lisa Levine, Maha Rose Center for Healing

    2014
  • SMITH COLLEGE, B.A.

    English Literature & Government (International Relations)

    2002