Karina Colliat, Ma, MFT

I use arts, nature and somatic therapy to support people struggling with the challenges of living with chronic disease, so they can live a joyful and balanced life. We are living in a society where we are seeing an increase in work pressure and chronic stress side by side with a means to distract ourselves from what we are actually feeling.

We have created wonderful technology that makes it easier for us to connect all over the world while at the same time giving us a device to keep us constantly distracted and losing connection with ourselves.This technology gives us the freedom to work from wherever we want whenever we want. Unfortunately, that also means we can work all the time. Ongoing or chronic stress has been shown to have anywhere from mild to serious affects on our physical and mental well being.

At the same time there are also studies being done to show the benefits of mindfulness and time in nature on decreasing the effects of stress and symptoms of stress induced diseases.