"But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down the road to meet yourself. And you will say - yes."
– Marion WoodmanYou feel it in the quiet moments. When you slow down enough to pause, it creeps into your mind: the life you haven’t lived, the woman you thought you’d be by now. There’s a version of you who isn’t afraid to want, who doesn’t shrink to please, who is unapologetically herself. She leans into joy, into pleasure. She gives herself permission to rest, to receive, to desire, to dream.
First, we grieve. We grieve every year lost, every scar, every version of her who never had the chance to live. We weep for who she could have been.
And then we begin. We head out to the edge of the woods together, lanterns lit, and we search for her, the woman you were always meant to be. We build something you may not yet believe is possible: a life utterly yours, utterly indulgent, one that makes you weep again — this time, with joy.
“Kathleen has exceeded my expectations. I appreciate the judgement-free space she creates. I love the way her brain makes connections.”
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Why 'Near the Wild Hedge?'The name, explained...
There have always been women who lived at the edge.
They were not fully of the village, not fully of the wood. They were the ones others came to when ordinary remedies didn’t work. These women kept one foot in the known world and one in the wild.
In folklore, the hedge is a threshold.
On one side lies the village, the rules, the roles, the long list of things a woman is supposed to be. On the other side lie the woods. In the woods resides every pain you've buried, everything you've been afraid to want, everything you suspect might be true about who you really are.
Most women don't want to cross this threshold alone. The woods are dark, and the old stories warn you about what happens to girls who wander in by themselves. But the truth the old stories don't tell you is this: the woods also hold the parts of you that got left behind when you learned to be small, to be palatable, or to be the responsible one. Those lost parts are still in there, waiting for you.
You don't have to go alone. You don't have to go without a light. And you don't have to stay there forever.
This practice exists at the hedge.
My work is to meet you there, lantern in hand, walk with you, and help you discover what the woods are holding for you, whether grief, anger, desire, or your own unlived life, and then guide you back out again.
You return home with what you’ve found: clarity, your voice, empowerment, and the woman you were before you burnt out, shrunk, or needed to abandon yourself.
The hedge is also a boundary.
That's not a coincidence. The woman who learns to stand at her own edge, who knows what belongs inside her life and what doesn't, is the same woman who can walk into the wild and come home whole.
“I am incredibly grateful. Kathleen’s help and style, as opposed to traditional talk therapy, has helped me immensely. It made me feel normal, relatable, and like I had control again and could make better choices.”
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AboutTherapy is often hard work. It can also be sacred and full of wonder. I make room for both.
Women who are always trying harder need and deserve something better than just more trying, more effort. They need somewhere to breathe, play, and be curious about themselves again. That's what I offer.
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor and coach with more than a decade of clinical experience. Over those years I've sat with much of what therapy can hold: grief, social anxiety, depression, the impacts of complex trauma, couples in crisis, and people rebuilding after the worst years of their lives. That range matters to me. It's what taught me how to how to hold hard things without flinching, and how to untangle the pattern underneath the symptoms.
And it's what brought me here, to my current practice and the work I'm built to do.
These days my practice centers on women who over-function, over-give, and have quietly lost their connection to themselves, women navigating self-abandonment, codependency, and the long echo of complex trauma.
I understand this terrain from the inside. I've lived some of the patterns I now help my clients unwind, and I've been through my own season of burnout as a therapist, the kind that asks you to get honest about what you actually want your life to look like. What came out of those reflections is the practice I run now: smaller, more focused, and more aligned.
It is rooted in evidence-based practice, informed by the long clinical lineage of depth traditions, and shaped by my own experience as a woman who's done, and is still doing, her own version of recovery.
It's also, I hope, a little more spacious than therapy is often made out to be. Healing doesn't only happen through talk and hard work. To heal, we also need play, ritual, creativity, movement, story, symbols, intuition, and connection. These are the rites of healing in my work.
I work with women navigating complex trauma, codependency, perfectionism, leaving or healing from toxic relationships, and the threshold of menopause. You can read more about services I offer and areas of specialization on the therapy offerings and coaching offerings pages.
The woman you were meant to be is already waiting.
Ready when you are.
Let’s go find her together.