About me
My name is Kathryn Kupillas, and I am a licensed psychothearpist, intuitive guide and artist.
I am a woman of Czech and German ancestry, currently living and working on Chumash and Tongva land now called Los Angeles. I was raised in southern Minnesota and feel deeply rooted to the endless fields, forests and bodies of water that were my playground for the first 18 years of my life. I spent a lot of time there cultivating my connection to spirit, so the landscape holds quiet magic for me.
I currently live with my husband and two cats, Queenie and Mr. President, in Los Angeles. Although my insatiable curiousity has taken me to live and explore many differnet places in the world, this feels like home (for now). I am deeply invested in the relationships in my life, both of my chosen and given family. I balance out the intensity of my work with photography and movement. Nature is my religion and I do my best to be there often.
I’ve been blessed with profound teachers and life lessons that inspired an interest in healing very early on in life. My childhood was my first container for spiritual learning. I grew up with a kind hearted father who dealt with severe addiction that eventually lead to years of incarceration, and because of this I was primarily raised by a single mother who was spirited, fiercely loving, and hard working, who gave endlessly to everyone but herself. I was initiated into my commitment to healing work after my parents left this world in 2014. My father left quickly and unexpectedly during my mother’s 9 month terminal cancer process. This time was the source of some of my deepest life lessons, and continues to be one of my most powerful teachers. I learned the true meaning of surrendering to the forces of nature and the universe, which brought a deeper connection to spirit and unseen realms.
Introduced to a myriad of holistic healing modalities from a young age, I developed a natural interest in healing, spirituality and art very early on. I received trainings and self-study with an intuitive for over a decade starting at age 18, completed a series of Reiki trainings to master level and have studied yoga for 2 decades, receiving teacher certification. In my 20’s and early 30’s I worked as an artist, with my primary medium being photography, which I still practice to this day.
I balanced these studies with an immersion in academia, studying interdisciplinary art and psychology at Bennington College, and a decade later, completing a masters in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in depth and archetypal psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Taking C.G Jung’s belief that, “images are the language of the unconscious mind,” I later studied with a hypnotist and further strengthened a process of working with the unconscious drawing on image, myth and metaphor.
I have focused trainings in inner child work, active imagination work, family systems, EMDR, CRM and TRM for trauma healing, EFT, and somatic healing. In working toward licensure as a psychotherapist I trained with over 3,000 supervised client hours both at a community mental health center as well as in private practice, participating in a wide array of trainings and techniques.
I am a perpetual student, currently studying with a Terry Real and pursuing a 2 year certification in Relational Life Therapy and Dan Siegel’s Comprehensive Neurobiology Program.
My offerings today are ultimately guided by my ancestors, my guides as well as time spent in the creative process and nature. I am so grateful to all of the teachers I have had throughout my lifetime thus far, as so much of their work lives through me.
I see my work as a spiritual midwife. In no way am I a guru or do I feel I know better than you. I am invested in non-hierarchical mentorship. I believe we all have a deep well of wisdom and intuition that is ready to be accessed at any time.
My ultimate intention for my clients is to strengthen that connection. I work consistently doing my own healing work so that I can mirror and hold my clients with the utmost integrity and empower them to step into their full power, intuition and wisdom.