Kate Morningstar Bednarski, MS, MLA

Coaching and counseling are complementary. Both involve partnering to shift states or resolve personal issues. Counseling explores the past—often family-of-origin issues, with a focus on healing. Coaching picks up where counseling leaves off; it’s focused on the NOW and future toward expansion and moving forward in life with purpose.

No, I am an initiated Shamanic Practitioner, Coach, and Certified Interfaith Spiritual Companion. While it may be appropriate at times to discuss personal and relational issues in the context of our work, I am not trained as a psychotherapist and do not provide counseling services. Similarly, we may discuss financial matters in the context of financial well-being, but I do not offer financial advice.

A Shaman is a healer of the Spirit. The shamanic path is one of deep connection to all of nature — Mother Earth below, Father Sky above, the sun, the moon, the cosmos — and a direct connection with the Great Spirit. To walk the path as a shamanic helper, one coexists in the ordinary and non-ordinary states. That is, I serve as a human conduit, bridging the visible and spirit realms as healing spirits work through me.

Many feel drawn to a shamanic session the moment they hear about it. They may not know why. They simply feel drawn to the experience. You may need a shamanic session if you’re experiencing any of the following: 

• Emotional uneasiness, prolonged grief, heaviness, nervous system dysregulation

• Physical symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, recurring nightmares, chronic pain, migraines, autoimmune symptoms, or repeating relationship patterns

• A general sense of being stuck, feeling sluggish and blocked, or experiencing recurring misfortune

• Dislocation or dysregulation after traumatic experiences or psychedelic journeying

Shamanic sessions serve you to:

• Awaken and release energetic blocks, pain and suffering, possessions, stuck energies, and ancient inherited lineage patterns that create stuckness and dis-ease. 

• Attune all of your bodies— emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual.

• Restore wholeness and power

Shamanic clearing addresses the part of the illness in your spirit, soul, or energy body. It classifies dis-ease into three broad categories (soul loss, power loss, and possession), each of which requires a different approach. In all cases, Helping Spirits guide and work through me to restore and balance your spirit and energy.

The Spirits always cure, but the cure does not always manifest in the way we might imagine. Shamanic clearing doesn't always result in instantaneous, complete physical healing, though it sometimes can. You may receive such a clearing, and the more you open yourself to that possibility, the more you will allow the healing elements to come in.

Shamanic healing complements Western medicine, which focuses on treating a patient’s symptoms or curing illness. Healing or clearing on the shamanic-spiritual level can prevent conditions from appearing in the physical body whileaddressing the imbalance in spirit, thereby supporting the physical and emotional bodies in returning to wellness once a condition has appeared. Learn more about La Limpia.

Integration is a vital component of the entheogenic/psychedelic/sacred plant medicine experience because it bridges the ineffable elements of the medicine journey into one’s daily life, maximizing the potential for personal growth and healing. The real journey begins after the experience through integration, which can last for months, years, or even a lifetime.

It helps to:

• Make sense of the experience

• Ensure personal safety and well-being

• Address emotional material or issues that may arise

• Resolve past traumas

• Break free from limiting beliefs or destructive patterns

• Support the emergence of one’s true spiritual nature

• Foster lasting personal growth and transformation

We clarify what you want to focus on during our time working together. Once clear, we meet regularly for a period of time we determine, during which I ask you questions, give direct, guided answers, and offer my presence, listening, and reflection to whatever you bring in. I also suggest healing activities, readings, and things to notice between sessions using tools I developed or have access to, to offer support.  Some of the tools I use include:

• Parts exploration (IFS Model)

• Oracle Readings

• Ritual, Ceremonies, and Journey experiences

• Shamanic Practices

• Discernment Partnership

• Regain your power

• Shift relationships with time, money, people, and work

• Gain personal courage, confidence, and influence

• Shift from fear (scarcity) to trust (prosperity)

• Create more meaning and greater fulfillment