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Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts: Relief, Recovery, Resilience
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Whole Family Clinic 

Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts offers Free Clinic for Families with Babies that need help with any of the following:
  • ​Difficulty breastfeeding
  • Body and head asymmetry
  • Inconsolable crying
  • Digestive difficulties including reflux
  • Excessive crying in tummy time and other movements and games
  • Positional discomfort especially when being held
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Traumatic births
The Whole Family Clinic's approach  is Infant Centered Family Therapy as taught by Ray Castellino and the work of Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment (BEBA). The primary focus is the healthy growth and development of the baby in the family setting. In that context we create an environment wherein the baby can show us what they need to grow and heal. We support the baby’s parents to discover what they need to know and do in order to nurture and support their baby’s growth. Babies and parents are given equal support during therapy sessions. If we discover something that works with a baby, we will, when possible, train the parents to do the same thing. The end result is that babies develop fundamental life skills with which to grow, and parents develop fundamental parenting and family skills with which to raise their children.

We also combine massage, craniosacral, and trauma resolution approaches to help you and your baby.  Many times, the baby needs to tell their story, so therapists talk with babies and observe their gestures and body movements as part of the story.   Therapeutic influences include the work of John and Anna Chitty, Ray Castellino, Mary Jackson, Brigit Viksnins and the somatic approaches from Somatic Experiencing.  We also educate parents about the nervous system, and work with their experiences to settle historical trauma, birth trauma and/or other aspects of family life.  

If there is difficulty, further work may be warranted and treatment protocols will be suggested, with a list of practitioners in Charlottesville for follow up.  These practitioners include bodyworkers, lactation consultants, and professional counselors or social workers.  We refer to licensed practitioners only, and offer mentoring for licensed practitioners if they wish to assist in the clinic.

In 2020, I was part of a research team that completed a study of the family work I do. Here is the abstract and the whole study and the short version are uploaded.
Abstract: In 2020, a retrospective study was conducted, examining 27 years of family sessions offered at the BEBA Family Clinic in California. Raymond Castellino, DC, and Tara Blasco, PhD, co-directors of the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment (BEBA) program, assembled a team of researchers for the study. Fifty-four previous BEBA Clinic participants completed a quantitative survey and 12 participated in qualitative interviews. The data gathered are shared in this report, providing the BEBA organization with feedback corroborating the program’s evolving principles and practices. The study and organization presents a model of child-centered family care to other professionals who are developing similar programs
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103 Caty Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22901
434-996-2002


katercst@gmail.com

Member ABMP
Licensed in Virginia
Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork

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"I tried for many years to locate a massage  therapist that could work in tandem with my osteopathic doctor. There is a big difference in the way that Kate works. Her approach is holistic and encompasses an incredible realm of skills." ~ K.L. in Charlottesville, VA

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"We loved working with Kate. She has a wonderful, intuitive way with children and babies . . . I wish that all babies and mothers could benefit from the therapies that Kate has to offer.”" S.R. a mom in Charlottesville, VA

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