About Kathleen

Kathleen is a Nature Intuitive, Certified Flower Essence Practitioner, Tellington TTouch Method Equine Practitioner, and Educator offering tools and support to help navigate life’s challenges with confidence and grace.

For over 16 years, she’s been working intentionally with Nature, creating remedies with flowers for women and their beloved animal companions. Kathleen’s ability to listen deeply and compassionately, selecting precisely the right flower essences, helps each client feel fully supported as they overcome challenges, heal from traumatic experiences, and find a greater sense of connection. 

Kathleen created her boutique line of flower essences, the Flora of Asia, from plant species originating in China and Japan. Many of these plants have been used for thousands of years as herbs but had not yet been explored as flower essences. She uses these as well as selections from many other producers in her work with clients. 

Kathleen is also a a founder of The School for Flower Essence Studies and co-hosts The Flower Essence Podcast.

My Story

Dig beneath appearances and you’ll find the root of what shaped who I am today — my source of empathy and connection with sensitive souls.

I could tell you my story as that of a middle-class, Southern California, blond little girl who spent hours and days riding her pony friend Onion, playing with her dog, and tending to a flower garden.

I could describe an idyllic childhood and a great preamble to a career as a holistic wellness practitioner.

While that carefree version of my childhood is technically true in that there was a pony, a dog, and a garden — scratch the thin veneer of normalcy and what you will find beneath the surface is a troubled, dark world and a reality as far from idyllic as can be.

The truth is, I was born in a doomsday cult and while we waited for the end of the world to come, my earliest memories, childhood and teenage years, as a female, were a study in patriarchal misogyny.

As a female child, I was taught that I was less than. 

As a female child, I was taught that my body was not my own.

As a female child, I was taught that my purpose was not for me to choose

As a female child, I was taught that my voice carried no weight

As a female child, I was taught to obey without questions

As a female child, I was taught there were dire consequences for disobeying.

As a female child, I was taught I should not be ungrateful

As a female child, I learned I was not my own, not enough, not whole, not complete.

Be born a male, rule the world and the females in it. 

Be born a female and learn to obey and forget your needs, wants, dreams.

Why am I here to speak of it today?

Because there was a Garden.

And in the Garden, there were flowers, and earth, and grass, and a tree, and in the tree, there were birds.

And in the Garden, there was solace.

In the Garden, there was Nature.

And in Nature, there were moments of a wondrous dream-like state that expanded and expanded until it filled a little girl’s entire being with light and she became a part of IT ALL. She became as one with the sweet rose and the song of the birds and the bees buzzing about. She became the Garden. In the rustling of leaves, the sun soaked air, she experienced the vastness of the Universe and its love for her. And through that love, she learned, instinctively, that she held a place in the Garden and the World and it was no less of a place because she was a female child.

On the road to today, there was first a lot of fear, pain, anger, shame, rebellion, depression, and seeking.

Throughout those harsh chain-breaking and rebuilding years, there was one constant healing presence: Nature. Nature in the form of flowers, plants, and trees. Nature in the form of animals.

Nature’s voice never left me.

As I grew, it too, grew louder, until it became a chorus of plants, trees, and flowers declaring their desire to help, sharing their healing gifts and virtues with me.

As a female child who was coerced, I am here to tell you, there is no love in coercion, no matter how we dress it up.

In time, I was led to a unique nature preserve and gardens filled with the daughters of the most ancient and delicate roses in the world and Flora of Asia Flower Essences came to life.

The whole Garden, offering its love, kindly, patiently, selflessly, in the hope of creating greater harmony amongst all of Nature’s creations. 

And then, I spent years listening.

I listened to dogs and birds and horses, and I listened to people, and I listened to Nature.

In time, I was led to Flower Essences, Acupressure, and Tellington TTouch® Method, gaining skills that allowed me to put in practice healing techniques that recognize and honor the uniqueness of an individual and empower them to find their way to wholeness. 

In my practice, everyone is accepted and honored for who they are and where they are in their healing journey.

I’ve learned that: 

• Those who are very sensitive and have enormous empathy also have difficulty setting boundaries that support them.

• Those who’ve experienced childhood traumas often struggle with overwhelming emotions of anxiety and shame.

• Those who weren’t seen or valued in early life are prone to over-work, perfectionism, and never feeling enough.

While most have not grown up in a doomsday cult, many women I meet through my work have experienced violence and dismissal. They have been wounded in critical ways that reverberate in the whole of their lives and their relationships.

It doesn’t matter how old you are — if that inner child is still crying, she still needs to be loved, held, and healed. 

When these parts are wounded or in pain, you can’t access child-like joy and wonder in your daily life. It adversely impacts your health, relationships, work, and every area of your life. 

When I work with these wounded parts in my clients and connect them with perfectly matched Flower Essences, profound shifts occur. 

Most clients experience significant emotional relief, release the burden of shame, reduce anxious thoughts, find more ease and a sense of hope, and feel more like themselves. 

Over time, Flower Essence Therapy heals these parts in an organic process — this where there’s no force, only flow. Nature is gently supportive, it meets you where you are and helps you take the next step.

Together we support that inner child with the loving arms of Nature and perfectly matched Flower Essences.