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VETERAN-OWNED & OPERATED • OAK HARBOR • WHIDBEY ISLAND, WA

Calm Your Nervous System
         Without Reliving the Past

You can understand exactly why you react the way you do — and still have your body, emotions, or behavior respond before your thinking mind can catch up.

Trauma-informed MAP Method™ coaching helps adults release the old reactions and patterns that keep stress, overwhelm, and emotional reactivity running your life — so you can feel calmer, clearer, and more like yourself.

Let's see if MAP is right for you

Start with a $50 Intro MAP Session

A Quick Welcome from Kathy

Hear a brief personal hello before booking a call.

What is MAP Method™ coaching?

MAP is a gentle, structured coaching process that works with the automatic emotional and nervous-system patterns that can keep reacting even when you consciously know you're safe or want to respond differently.

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Instead of requiring you to repeatedly tell or relive painful experiences, MAP helps address the beliefs, reactions, and protective responses beneath the surface so you can have more calm, flexibility, and choice in everyday life.

MAP sessions are coaching and personal-growth support, not psychotherapy, medical treatment, or crisis care.

This is for you if...

You want relief that feels gentle, practical, and in your control.

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Personalized Goal Coaching

  • Calm

  • Clarity

  • A clear next step

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Anxiety & Overwhelm Support

  • Regulate quickly

  • Tools you can use right away

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Group Sessions

  • Connection

  • Savings

  • Step-by-step path

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Interested in a Local Support Group?

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One Calm Step at a Time

Gently retrain your brain and body to feel calmer and respond differently to old triggers.

Start Here

We'll talk for a few minutes about what you would like to work on.

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Release & Calm

Through gentle MAP Method™ sessions, we'll address resistance and/or triggers so they lose their hold.

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Move Forward

You'll feel ready to engage with life again, trusting your nervous system.

Featured Services

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Free Discovery Call (30 Minutes)

We will see if we are a good match for the work.  It is also a great time to ask about sliding scale pricing options.

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One on One Session for $150.00
 

Through gentle MAP Method™ sessions, we'll address resistance and/or triggers so they lose their hold.

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3- or 5-Session MAP Packages

Choose virtual or in-person, select your first date and time, then choose your package at checkout.

Sliding scale pricing is available for those who need it.  Let's talk - your healing matters more than a number.

When Someone You Love Is in Crisis

Something’s Shattered is a compassionate support circle for family members and close supporters of someone facing addiction, homelessness, mental health challenges, food insecurity, or another serious crisis.

 

You do not have to carry this alone.

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Testimonials
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What Five of My Clients Say

MAP has truly changed my life. I feel calmer, more empowered, and much more in control of how I respond to things. Within days, I noticed I was reacting differently to situations that used to trigger me.

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There is more space, less overthinking, and my inner critic has started to quiet down. What I love most is how MAP gently works with my subconscious - it feels natural, supportive, and deeply effective. 

Kathy has helped me to heal so much.


Gabrielle McIntosh, Veteran, USN

My-Practice

Your Journey to Joy

  • Trauma-informed, gentle process

  • Veteran-owned and operated (Oak Harbor, WA)

  • Supports stress, anxiety, and overwhelm - without reliving the past

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Kathy Donaldson, Certified MAP Practitioner
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