Katya Coad Counselling

Katya Coad Counselling I work online or in person to provide a safe and non-judgmental space to explore and set personal goals from a place of kindness, openness, and curiosity.

I use somatic, inner child, and cognitive behavioural therapies to guide the process.

Overview:Title: Easing Anxiety with MindfulnessGuide: Heron Payne, Certified Mindfulness Meditation TeacherWhen: Oct. 19...
09/25/2025

Overview:

Title: Easing Anxiety with Mindfulness

Guide: Heron Payne, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

When: Oct. 19, 26/Nov. 2, 9

Where: Online (via Zoom)

Sliding scale: $40 | $80 | $120

Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/easing-anxiety-with-mindfulness-meditation-tickets-1693110742809

Anxiety doesn’t have to rule your life. Join Easing Anxiety with Mindfulness Meditation, a 4-week online workshop with Heron Payne, to learn practical tools for calm and resilience.
👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/easing-anxiety-with-mindfulness-meditation-tickets-1693110742809

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A 4-week online workshop with Heron Payne
✨ Discover tools for calm, resilience & a quieter mind.
📅 Starts Oct.19 | Online | Sliding scale
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/easing-anxiety-with-mindfulness-meditation-tickets-1693110742809

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A COUNSELLORThe most important factor in therapy isn’t technique — it’s fit. You should feel emotion...
05/10/2025

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A COUNSELLOR

The most important factor in therapy isn’t technique — it’s fit. You should feel emotionally safe, seen, and respected.

Look for someone who:

Gets you (or is trying to)

Works in a way that makes sense to you

Has solid training and integrity

Owns their humanness

A good counsellor doesn’t fix you — they walk with you as you grow into more of who you really are.

EVER WONDER WHY SOMATIC THERAPY WORKS?It’s not magic. It’s nervous system science. Most therapy helps us think about our...
04/12/2025

EVER WONDER WHY SOMATIC THERAPY WORKS?

It’s not magic. It’s nervous system science. Most therapy helps us think about our problems, reflect on our past, or change how we see ourselves. That is indeed powerful. But what if the body doesn’t feel safe, even after all the insight?

That’s where somatic therapy comes in...

Trauma, stress, and emotional pain aren’t just stored in your mind - they live in your nervous system. So, when we use body-based therapy, we’re working from the bottom up:

• Instead of thinking your way into safety, you feel it.
• Instead of rehashing painful memories, your body learns how to finally release what it’s been holding in the here and now.
• You stop reacting from old survival patterns and start responding from a more grounded place.

It’s not about reliving the past. It’s about helping your body catch up to the present. Somatic therapy reconnects you to yourself, from the inside out.

It’s not just about what you think, but what you know in your bones. That’s when true healing begins.

OUR PRIMAL ATTACHMENT NEEDS AREN'T WEAKNESS, BUT RATHER A MAP TO HEALINGUnderneath all the ways we cope, protect, perfor...
04/04/2025

OUR PRIMAL ATTACHMENT NEEDS AREN'T WEAKNESS, BUT RATHER A MAP TO HEALING

Underneath all the ways we cope, protect, perform, or withdraw, we are wired for connection.

From the moment we’re born, we reach. We cry. We scan for faces, for warmth, for the soothing sound of a heartbeat we once knew from the inside.

This isn’t a sign of dysfunction. It’s biology.

We need to feel seen, safe, soothed, and supported - not just as babies, but throughout our entire lives.

These are our primal attachment needs:

* To be emotionally attuned to
* To be held and comforted when distressed
* To trust that someone will come when we call
* To feel accepted even in our messiest, most human moments

When these needs are consistently met, we build a foundation of safety. We move through the world with more ease, more resilience. We bounce back.

But when these needs are unmet, inconsistent, or ignored - especially early in life - we adapt. We become independent too early. We learn to downplay our needs. Or we become hypervigilant, always scanning for abandonment or disapproval.

These adaptations aren’t flaws - they’re creative survival strategies. But they often leave us feeling like we’re “too much,” “too needy,” or “not enough.”

The truth is, our longing for closeness, reliability, and tenderness is not shameful. It’s sacred. It points us toward healing.

In therapy - and in conscious, caring relationships - we get to revisit those needs with new possibilities. We get to feel what it’s like to reach and be met. To ask and receive. To show up honestly without being pushed away.

This isn’t weakness. This is repair. This is reclamation.

If your attachment needs feel “too big,” “too scary,” or “too broken”… I promise you, they’re not. They're ancient. They're beautiful. And they’re worth honouring.

LETTING GO OF USELESS THOUGHT AND THE EGO MINDMost of what runs through our heads on repeat isn’t truth.It’s noise.Old p...
03/31/2025

LETTING GO OF USELESS THOUGHT AND THE EGO MIND

Most of what runs through our heads on repeat isn’t truth.
It’s noise.
Old programming.
Protective patterns.
A scared part trying to keep us safe by anticipating everything that could go wrong.
Or replaying old scenes, hoping this time we’ll figure out what we should have said or done.

That’s the ego mind at work—trying to control, protect, defend, and fix.
But it never really brings peace, does it?

When we start to see that most of our thoughts are just mental habits - not reality - we can begin to let them go.
Not by pushing them away.
Not by shaming ourselves for having them.
But by recognizing:
This isn’t me. This is just the old survival script playing again.

The shift happens when we drop into the body, into the now.
Feel the ground.
Breathe.
Notice your heart beating.

Your presence is more powerful than any thought.
Your awareness is the real you.
And from that place, you don’t need to manage your thoughts—you can just watch them come and go like clouds in the sky.
Some are useful.
Most are not.
And none of them define you.

Dropping the ego mind isn’t about having no thoughts.
It’s about not believing all of them.
Not identifying with them.
And gently choosing to come home to presence, again and again.

You are not your mind.
You are not your past.
You are not your fear.

You are the space that holds it all.
And in that space… there is peace.

LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY - TRUST ME, I'VE TRIED!Ever had a moment when life just humbled you? It's like confid...
02/26/2025

LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY - TRUST ME, I'VE TRIED!

Ever had a moment when life just humbled you? It's like confidently walking into a room, only to feel the pain shoot straight up your nose as you hit the glass door. Yeah, me too.

I have a funny little habit of making a kind of weird noise of surprise (huh!) when I find myself unconsciously reflecting back on some embarrassing moment. I one time caught a friend doing the exact same thing, and when I asked them if they had been thinking of something embarrassing, they nervously confessed that they had. The truth is, life is a comedy of errors, and if we don’t learn to laugh, we’ll spend most of our time cringing.

The ability to laugh at yourself and life isn’t about ignoring life’s challenges; it’s more like an act of defiance and a refusal to let the kinks ruin your day. Laughter is a built-in survival tool, like an emotional seatbelt for when life decides to take you on an unexpected rollercoaster ride.

So next time you trip over absolutely nothing in public, just own it, and take a bow. Life’s funny—why not be in on the joke?

EVER FEEL LIKE A WALKING CONTRADICTION? SAME! One minute: “I crave deep, meaningful connection.”Next minute:“Geesh, why ...
02/20/2025

EVER FEEL LIKE A WALKING CONTRADICTION? SAME!

One minute: “I crave deep, meaningful connection.”
Next minute:“Geesh, why is everyone texting me?”

One day: “Gotta be productive and accomplish my goals!”
Next day: “I just want to enjoy life. Mmmm... Netflix.”

If this sounds familiar, congratulations - you’re human! Our brains are messy, thoughts and emotions are weird, and let’s be honest… life is A LOT sometimes.

Instead of fighting it, what if we just noticed the contradictions with curiosity instead of frustration? What if being inconsistent doesn’t mean we were failing, but just… adapting?

What’s one “contradiction” about yourself that you’re learning to accept? Drop it in the comments - I promise, you’re not alone!

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415 Kootenay Street, #102E
Nelson, BC
V1L1K7

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 2pm - 8pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 6:30pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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+12506878592

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