About Kathleen Dunbar, LMFT

I am dedicated to helping you find, support and be alive in whatever you are passionate about bringing forth in your life. 

I’m dedicated to helping you find and come alive in whatever you are passionate about bringing forth in your life. I offer a huge palette of tools and a creative and creativity-inspiring soul. I offer you a down-to-earth palette which is kind, practical, creative, experienced, and works. I’ll help you reconnect to your most-alive self in the present moment through embodied, take-away practices that will help you thrive and fulfill your dreams. I’m also a performer and singer-songwriter with five albums, a writer, poet and artist. I know the thrill of expression and also what we must face in ourselves in order to truly express.

I’ll help you discover the satisfaction and meaning of living from your Wise Self with the pleasurable participation of your body. You’ll learn to to bring compassion and love to yourself, your relationships, and your life’s work and manifest your unique personal mission statement for your life.

When we weave together the practical, the imaginative, the heartful and a good laugh—we are unstoppable!

From the very beginning of my career I fell in love with the power, dignity, efficacy and joy of somatic and mindfulness-based healing practices. I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist with extensive training and over twenty five years' experience offering a variety of somatic and experiential modalities, neuroscience and mindfulness approaches. I also offer consultation, supervision, workshops and talks. I am a woman who loves and spreads the village life. I feel deeply connected with people and nature. I sing because I am made to sing. I offer myself as a healer because that is my path. That is how I came to this work of healing. I've learned transformation, respect and love from the inside-out. What I know in my bones and heart I offer to you.

Each time we meet I'll help you take with you:  
a felt sense, practiced-in-session connection with your True Self 
that will not only sustain you, 
but surprise you, enliven you 
and which you will use to build on and deepen into.

Finding the right therapist is an important decision. Your journey is an important one.

I offer you a down-to-earth palette which is kind, practical, creative, experienced,
and works.

You are a delight!

Reach out and call. The consultation is free.
415/668-5130
I look forward to speaking with you.

Credentials

Licenses and Certifications 

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (2003) 
  • Certified Hakomi Therapist (2004) 

Degrees 

  • California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, MA in Integral Counseling Psychology, 1997 
  • Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, BA in English Literature, 1981 

Affiliations 

  • California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) 
  • Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) 
  • Certified Hakomi Therapist with the International Hakomi Institute
  • Coming Home Project (2008-2020)

Supervisor 2006 – Present 

  • Counseling centers where I've offered supervision for trainees and interns include: Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, Center for Somatic Psychotherapy, Golden Gate Counseling Center, Grateful Heart, Integral Counseling Center at Church Street, Integral Counseling Center at Pierce Street, Liberation Institute, Marina Counseling Center, New Perspectives Center for Counseling, and Oak Creek Counseling Center. 

Selected Training History 

SOMATICS, HAKOMI, ATTACHMENT 

  • Certified Hakomi Therapist, 2004 
  • Two-Year Comprehensive Training in Hakomi Mindfulness Centered Psychotherapy, Hakomi Institute of California
  • Psychophysical Therapy Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing, Bill Bowen 
  • Re-Creation of the Self, Jon Eisman 
  • Attending to Attachment Training,  Julie Murphy, Hakomi Institute of California 
  • Group Leadership, Hakomi Institute of California 
  • Hakomi Couples Therapy, Rob Fisher, Hakomi Institute of California 
  • Responding to Life: Developmental Character Maps, Hakomi Institute of California 
  • Waking Up from the Family Trance, Julie Murphy and Manuela Mischke Reeds, Hakomi Institute of California 
  • Making Friends with Anger, Hakomi Institute of California  
  • Accessing the Divine, Hakomi Institute of California

TRAUMA/SENSORIMOTOR 

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Professional Training in Resolving Trauma: 1 Trauma Themes
  • Janina Fisher Sensorimotor Trauma Consult Group 2006-2011
  • Working with Anger, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 

PSYCHODRAMA 

  • Principles of Psychodrama, Armand Volkas 
  • Using Dreams, Metaphors and Images with Psychodrama, Sylvia Israel 

TABLEWORK, ENERGYWORK 

  • The Tamura Method, Wynn Tamura 
  • Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Work, Charles Ridley  
  • Biodynamic Approach to Cranial Sacral Work, Allison Post, private teaching group 
  • Healing the Light Body, The Four Winds Society, full mesa carrier  
  • Energy Awareness and Healing, The Foundation Series, Bear McKay 
  • Wilderness Quest, Holos Institute 
  • Shamanic Drumming Circle 
  • Wilderness Quest, Dance of the Deer Foundation 

CONTINUUM MOVEMENT PRACTICE 

  • Continuum and Trauma, Manuela Mischke Reeds and Linda Chrisman  
  • Continuum Movement Workshops, Manuela Mischke Reeds, Linda Chrisman, Lucia Miracchi and Beth Pettengill-Riley 

FOCUSING 

  • Focusing, Anne Weiser Cornell

 

Diversity and Welcome to All  

My therapy practice is very diverse. I serve adults of every race, nationality, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

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   I want to tell you 
   that you are okay 

     I want to be 
     the flower for you 
     the small diamond water 
     of the fountain 
     with the mossy stones 
     the clear song of the bird 
     that breaks your heart 
     enough 
     so that you begin  
     to remember 
     it's okay to be alive 
  
     I know how hard it is 
     I have the scars, too 
     from the jagged monster 
     who chews its children 
     and leaves them 
     tense-boned and 
     half-alive 
     the monster of breaking 
     who fills small bodies 
     with knowledge so unspeakable 
     that the most golden of bells 
     can make no sound 
  
     but my love 
     if you keep hope  
     behind the wall 
     it is no good 
     no good 
     you have to walk out 
     into the open now 
     though every sinew 
     curdles 
     for bone and will 
     have done their work 
     they have brought you 
     here 
     but they are  
     useless creatures 
     when confronted  
     with kindness 
  
     what was given to you 
     long ago-- 
     the sad old spasm 
     of protection-- 
     with that you 
     can never know honey 
     you can never truly 
     deeply 
     laugh 
  
     oh my love, 
     those old wars 
     they are over and gone 
     instead 
     my warm hand is here 
     and I'll tell you  
     over and over 
     with the eloquent language 
     of my fingers 
     my breath 
     my eyes that have seen 
     death and lived 
     I will tell you gladly 
     that we are home at last 
     alive most deeply 
     in our own dignity 
  
     though the hired warrior 
     has kept you walking 
     let him lay down 
     in the garden's earth now 
     and sumptuously rot 
     kindly let him come apart in 
     worm and root 
     till his hollowness 
     has healed into 
     the soft den of an animal 
  
     you have always been 
     the untarnishable gold bell 
     and the crazy wild heart of its 
     star-made clapper 
     and it is time, my love 
     for you to 
     ring 
                   -Kathleen Dunbar

Contact Me for a Free 30 Minute Phone Consultation

Phone

 415/668-5130