(916) 833-4367
Mental Health & Trauma Recovery services
to help you discover a sense of refuge in this life you are creating
Welcome to Refuge Life Services
Are you stuck in a life overshadowed by stress, fear, and anxiety? Are you struggling to build the future you desire after past pain or trauma? Do you feel haunted by negative thinking, low self-worth, or doubt? Perhaps you're ready to do the inner work... but you aren't sure where to start.
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Welcome to Refuge Life Services, where we partner together to discover
a sense of REFUGE in this life you are creating through Mental Health and Trauma Recovery Coaching and healing arts services for adults looking to foster positive mental health and overcome past trauma.
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The work of Refuge Life Services is different. Certified Coach Kate Brennan partners with clients through services that are holistic, addressing the person as a whole and their goals from multiple angles. All services are nervous system and trauma-informed, incorporating somatic work however clients feel most comfortable. Coach Kate is educated in working with neurodivergent clients and considers it sacred work to walk alongside another person on their journey.
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Mental Health and Trauma Recovery Coaching focuses on mental well-being, made up of an individual's emotional, psychological, and social wellness.
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Refuge Life Services offers private coaching, group programs and workshops both within the local community of Johnson City, Tennessee and virtually online; and healing arts services that center around somatic work, creative expression, and breathwork sessions. Holistic care is a corner stone in working together and often includes mindfulness, EFT (also called "tapping"), polyvagal work, herbalism, creative expression, and inner child work to name a few.
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For more information about coaching, click the button below! ​​​​​​
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How can working with Coach Kate help me in my mental health journey and creating the life I want after trauma?
Great question! Not all coaching is educated in these areas so, the truth is- not all coaching can help with these goals. However, Mental Health & Trauma Coach Kate Brennan has spent years learning neuro-health strategies, ways to regulate the nervous system, and learning how to work with trauma survivors. Her approach, whether in coaching or a healing arts session, is always nervous system and trauma-informed.
Regardless of whether you want to focus on fostering positive mental health, building a beautiful future after a painful experience, or both, Coach Kate can offer her guidance by helping you create a life characterized by hope and opportunity, creating new narratives and beliefs, building self-compassion, self-trust, and confidence; creating a sense of safety within your life; rediscovering yourself and your purpose; learning to identify and meet your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs; building self-care, healthy habits and coping strategies; uniting the nervous system and the mind; learning therapeutic tools; and building mental strength, resilience, and post-traumatic growth! Honestly, the list just keeps going because coaching and the healing journey with Refuge Life Services is personalized to you, and each client is unique.
A Note About What Coaching Is...
and What It Is Not
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Coaching empowers the client to move forward through powerful questions, deep conversation, tools and exercises. Coaching helps clients to recognize and remove blocks, create a vision for their life, take the actions needed to reach goals and provides accountability. Whereas therapy is focused on the "whys" of your past and going back to process the source of a wound, coaching is focused on the "hows" of your present and moving you into the future you desire to create
through ongoing goal setting and support.
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As CS Lewis said, "you can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
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Now, friends, let's touch on what coaching is not...
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The focus of Refuge Life Services is positive mental health and trauma recovery. Mental health coaching is separate from working with a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. Coaching cannot ethically -or legally- treat, diagnose, or "heal" a mental disorder, nor treat or diagnose a person's trauma; coaches cannot ethically work with individuals suffering a crisis of mental health. Coaches cannot do clinical work, nor work with a client's medication, as this is the role of a
licensed professional.
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Coaching is an incredible resource for self-led healing. You are in the driver's seat, and the coach is your partner. You decide on your goals and how this journey will look for you!​​​​​​​​
CONNECT WITH COACH KATE TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS WORKSHEET!
(916) 833-4367