ancient wisdom, translated to everyday life ✶ making the mystical accessible
You are the medicine
You are the guide
I'll help you remember how
reiki • intuitive healing • astrology-informed coaching
My work is to reintroduce you to your greatest teacher, your heart.
With Catherine ✶ from Altadena, California to wherever you are
about my work
i help you return
to your own light
My philosophy is simple: you don't need fixing — you need witnessing.
My practice is non-dogmatic and yet deeply devotional: devoted to you hearing your own heart and its guidance to the most authentic, embodied, accepted you. You won't need to adopt a belief system here. You'll need only curiosity, and the willingness to be witnessed.
This is a homecoming to your own heart, to your intuition, your inner guide, the knowing that was always yours. Think of me as a mechanic for the spirit: here for the tune-up, and here to teach you tools to tend to the engine yourself.
Together we'll create a sacred container dedicated to your care, guided toward the direction of love so you can live more gently with yourself, and move more easily through your life.
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offerings
ways to work together
Everything I do is rooted in this same quiet knowing: your heart is your ultimate guide. My work is to reintroduce you to it with ancient tools that are translated to our modern life. Sessions blending disciplines are available on the booking page.
First time? Choose the First Visit option; it includes an extra fifteen minutes, on me, for questions, settling in, and beginning gently.
Reiki
Reiki helps you slip beneath the surface of ordinary awareness, into the quiet country underneath, where your energetic body can finally ask for what it needs, and receive it. Reiki translates to Universal Life Energy. This energy moves toward the places that have gone stuck or dim, tending and mending, while you find your way back to your own heart and its quiet knowing. Hands-on and hands-off options available.
learn more → 75 min ✶ first visit 90 min book this sessionIntuitive Reiki
The full spectrum: an energy healing session woven together with intuitive support. While I tend to your energetic body, I also listen for what wants to be known: the images, messages, and quiet arrivals that come through while we work. Afterward, we sit with what came: loving reflections offered in symbol and metaphor, meant to listen for what your heart is asking to be known. Hands-on and hands-off options available.
learn more → 90 min ✶ first visit 1 hr 45 book this sessionAstrological Coaching
Your birth chart is your signature on this earth — a map of where ease and joy want to flow, and the gifts already yours for the harder passages. This somatically and esoterically informed coaching treats your chart like a totem: an anchor that shows how you can be best resourced as you move through the world, helping you feel your purpose in your body and put your gifts to work. An embodied, self-empowered way toward joy, grace, and compassion for yourself — a cosmic boost toward choosing the life you'd gladly live over and over.
learn more → 60 min ✶ first visit 75 min book now✶ add on Custom Tarot Card: a one-of-a-kind card, drawn by hand, based on your session. A small talisman of what we found.
✶ coming soon
Curse & Thoughtform Unraveling
What if the most common curse is the one we cast on ourselves? Drawing on shamanic training, I journey into the spirit realm to find the source of a curse or thoughtform, and gently untangle it. learn more →
love notes
kind words from bright hearts
"Cat has created such a serene and beautiful space in Altadena, and her presence alone makes you feel instantly at ease. Her Reiki session was deeply moving, and I released emotions I didn't even realize I was holding onto. She holds such a warm, gentle energy and is truly a human ray of sunshine. I left feeling lighter, clearer, and so grateful."
— CHARLOTTE"In session with Catherine, I felt at ease and held. I left feeling lighter yet grounded, both relaxed and energized."
— ANNIE"Catherine helped me reach a deep state of relaxation that I don't often experience. I left feeling both physically at ease and mentally refreshed. It was clear she genuinely cares about her work and creates a safe, calming environment for her clients."
— LILY"I had a session with Cat that I'm still thinking and feeling about. I felt fully supported by her process and generosity of spirit throughout — she created an environment of peace and comfort that let me fully relax into and receive the energetic experience. I left clear, relaxed, and energized, with new points to integrate into how I care for myself."
— EVA"Catherine is an encouraging, insightful reiki practitioner with a deeply empathetic approach. From the moment I walked in she put me at ease with her warmth and kindness. She helped me connect with emotions I was holding in my body that I hadn't been able to articulate before. Cat's a true pro and a wonderful human — I'd recommend her to anyone exploring their mind-body connection."
— GAYLE"I came to Hi Heart Healing as a total reiki newbie and couldn't have chosen a better practitioner for my first experience. Catherine is warm, authentic, and thoughtful, and made the whole session so comfortable. I left feeling deeply relaxed and freer than when I arrived. If you're new to alternative approaches, Catherine is your ideal practitioner. Thank you, Catherine!"
— SARAHabout me
I'm Catherine!
I'm an energy healer and coach trained in Reiki, Somatics, Astrology, Tarot, Creative Writing, Shamanic Journeying, and Clowning. They're all tools that point me in the same direction: home, to the true self.
I do this work because I use this work. I spent over twenty years building a career in media, where I found success but not purpose. This work guided me back — not only to a life that feels aligned, but to the skills to meet life's challenges with love, humor, and grace. It made life easier because it made it braver, richer, and more attuned.
I believe healing is our birthright, and the transformational magic I've experienced is available to anyone curious enough to try.
I know what it means to feel disconnected from yourself: trapped by the pressures of the life you chose, longing for a healthier way to relate to it, the way forward murky. I've sat in the boardrooms and I've sat at the altar, and I bring both fluencies here. I'm honored to hold a judgment-free space that helps you find your way back to your true self, with deep listening, room for whatever wants to be witnessed, and tools for becoming your own medicine.
rooted here in Altadena
the land is part of the medicine
I am humbled and proud to practice my work in the beautiful community of Altadena. This land has a long history of attracting artists, abolitionists, philosophers, and healers, and is the home of its original people, the Tongva. In the evenings the sun bows to the San Gabriels, and they blush apricot in return. The mountains, whose burn marks proudly remind us that we too are nature, and that we too can be renewed. In my work, I hope to be of service to this community, and to be a small blessing in the shadow of this sacred land.
Based in Altadena, and honored to serve clients across Pasadena and the greater Los Angeles area — in person and virtually.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin ✶