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Mentorship, Consulting, and Somatic Education for Healing Professionals
Whether you’re seeking structured training, personalized mentorship, or deeper integration of sound and somatic tools, Kate offers practitioner support that is attuned, embodied, and grounded in decades of experience. These offerings are designed for professionals who want to serve with more clarity, confidence, and compassion, while staying connected to their own nervous system and purpose. Wherever you are in your practice, there’s a path here for you.
1:1 Integrative Mentorship & Case Consultation
Cross-disciplinary integration for therapists, coaches, and healing professionals
Personalized, relational mentorship for practitioners navigating complexity, growth, and integration
Kate offers private mentorship for healing professionals across the globe who want to deepen their work, expand their skillset, and feel more grounded in their presence. These sessions are tailored to your needs, whether you’re integrating Somatic Experiencing, applying the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), exploring case dynamics, or seeking personal support as a space holder. Kate’s mentorship invites you to bring your whole self, your questions, your intuition, your resistance, and your insight into the process of becoming the practitioner you’re meant to be.
Personalized, relational mentorship for practitioners navigating complexity, growth, and integration
Kate offers private mentorship for healing professionals across the globe who want to deepen their work, expand their skillset, and feel more grounded in their presence. These sessions are tailored to your needs, whether you’re integrating Somatic Experiencing, applying the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), exploring case dynamics, or seeking personal support as a space holder. Kate’s mentorship invites you to bring your whole self, your questions, your intuition, your resistance, and your insight into the process of becoming the practitioner you’re meant to be.
This is ideal if you’re looking for:
Sound Protocol Integration Support
Advanced mentorship for practitioners using SSP, RRP, and somatic sound-based tools and modalities
Sound protocols like the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest & Repair Protocol (RRP) are powerful tools, but integrating them into real-world practice requires more than technical knowledge. It requires relational sensitivity, deep nervous system attunement, and a clear understanding of how sound interacts with trauma, development, and attachment. Kate offers advanced mentorship for professionals who are trained in these modalities but want to use them with greater clarity, creativity, and care.
As an internationally recognized expert, certified mentor and speaker for the delivery of the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP), Kate has helped shape the evolving landscape of sound-based healing, blending polyvagal theory, Somatic Experiencing®, and sensory integration into accessible, trauma-informed pathways. She supports practitioners in finding their voice with these tools, whether that means adapting delivery for a dysregulated client, combining sound with SE, or managing pacing and integration after listening sessions.
Resources & Videos from Kate
Please watch these videos to have a better understanding of how SSP, RRP, and SE can be used to work with your clients and deepen their experience.
Kate Appleton Explains Safe Sound Protocol vs Rest and Restore Protocol
Kate Appleton Explains SE and SSP Combination
Kate Appleton on Mentorship with Sound Programs
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, SSP is a polyvagal-informed auditory intervention designed to regulate the nervous system and enhance safety, social engagement, and emotional regulation. While SSP is a powerful tool, its effectiveness depends on how and when it’s used. Kate mentors practitioners in delivering SSP with nuance and flexibility, supporting you in recognizing cues of readiness, adjusting for sensitivity, and integrating SSP into broader somatic or relational frameworks.
Kate helps practitioners:
- Understand the layers of client readiness and nervous system capacity
- Adapt delivery methods for dysregulated or highly sensitive clients
- Pair SSP with attachment, sensory, or movement-based practices
- Prevent and respond to overactivation, dissociation, or shutdown
Rest & Repair Protocol (RRP)
The Rest & Repair Protocol (RRP) was co-developed as a complementary sound healing program that emphasizes gentle recalibration and deeper integration following trauma, stress, or overwhelm. Unlike SSP, RRP is designed to work more slowly, and is especially useful during times of fatigue, grief, or long-term nervous system depletion.
As an internationally recognized expert, certified mentor and speaker for the delivery of the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP), Kate brings unparalleled depth to this work, helping practitioners understand how to use RRP in both one-on-one and group settings, and how to guide clients through the subtler shifts it offers.
Kate supports practitioners in:
- Introducing RRP in safe, grounded, and culturally sensitive ways with clients experiencing grief, chronic stress, or post-SSP fatigue
- Pairing RRP with rituals, rest practices, or spiritual exploration
- Offering RRP as part of intensives, group containers, or long-term healing plans
WORK WITH KATE
Join Kate in the next round of, “Attachment and Somatics Practitioner Certificate” where she serves as an Educator
Kate co-leads this certification through Trauma and Somatics, you can read more and register here.
Kate co-leads this immersive training with Will Rezin, designed for therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and healing professionals who want to integrate attachment theory, somatic practice, and polyvagal-informed care into their work. This is not just a theoretical course—it’s experiential, alive, and deeply embodied. Participants learn to feel and track nervous system states in themselves and others, understand early attachment patterns, and support clients in repairing ruptures through presence and attunement rather than protocol.
The course brings together Kate’s decades of clinical and spiritual experience with Will’s precise nervous system mapping and trauma-informed teaching. Together, they create a grounded, warm, and intellectually rigorous space where learning happens in real-time—through movement, story, sensation, and reflection.
Kate co-leads this immersive training with Will Rezin, designed for therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and healing professionals who want to integrate attachment theory, somatic practice, and polyvagal-informed care into their work. This is not just a theoretical course—it’s experiential, alive, and deeply embodied. Participants learn to feel and track nervous system states in themselves and others, understand early attachment patterns, and support clients in repairing ruptures through presence and attunement rather than protocol.
The course brings together Kate’s decades of clinical and spiritual experience with Will’s precise nervous system mapping and trauma-informed teaching. Together, they create a grounded, warm, and intellectually rigorous space where learning happens in real-time—through movement, story, sensation, and reflection.
Attachment and Somatics is a live, in-depth professional training program designed specifically for helping professionals and caring individuals to deepen their understanding of attachment and somatics, and build the skills necessary for their work with clients who have a history of relational ruptures.
This unique program provides a solid foundation to support your clients through stressful periods of their lives using the simple and often overlooked wisdom inherent in each of us – the wisdom of the body.
Attachment and Somatics is a 30-hour certificate training which includes: 10 live training classes (three hours each) over 12-weeks (Monday’s from 11-2pm ET), 8 self-study modules of training materials, and private virtual community space for additional learning and support.
PERSONAL
testimonials
“As a member of a bigger family and an affluent family, Kate has been instrumental in helping me understand the nature and the dynamic that this brings within families.
She has been phenomenal in helping me understand my role as a father, a member of my family, and a member of a board. She has helped me across many areas of both personal, spiritual, and commercial relationships. She has shown me that healing takes place in relationships, and how to slow down, pause, not miss the moment and move forward in a much more effective way than I was.
In essence, if you’re looking for somebody to help find your blind spots and share that in a very safe way, Kate Appleton is your go to.”
Richard Lubner, South Africa,
former professional tennis player & currently an integrative coach