Short Bio
About Kate
Kate Alderman is a Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapist, Somatic Sexologist, Nervous System Recovery Coach, and Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine. She is the founder and director of You’re A Strong Woman Foundation: Domestic Violence Prevention and Recovery, an ambassador for Stop Domestic Violence Australia and New Zealand, and is committed to advancing trauma-informed, nervous system-based approaches to personal healing and systemic change.
Kate works across the full spectrum of somatic and nervous system therapy, supporting trauma and burnout recovery, as well as embodied wellbeing, intimacy, sexual health, and relational connection. She supports individuals in restoring embodied self-trust, regulating the nervous system, and reclaiming voice, agency, and grounded personal power through safety, self-awareness, and attunement to internal signals.
Her work integrates nervous system safety with self-protection, supporting people in remaining deeply connected to themselves while building emotional resilience, embodied discernment, clear communication and boundaries. This includes the capacity to internally source safety, stability, and anchored power without disconnecting from openness or receptivity.
Kate offers embodied therapy, somatic education, and nervous system recovery work through individual and couples sessions, workshops, and group programs. Her approach is informed by professional training, lived experience, and extensive work in somatic therapy, body-based practices, breathwork, fitness, health, personal transformation, and embodied inquiry.
Alongside her professional training, Kate brings more than a decade of immersion in traditional plant medicine settings, including multiple medicinal plant dietas in Peru. These experiences continue to inform her clinical understanding of trauma, attachment, emotional regulation, capacity, and integration within a grounded, trauma-informed framework.
Kate is known for her grounded presence and her capacity to hold depth with steadiness and clarity. She creates spaces that support meaningful and lasting change through embodied self-trust and internal authority.
She welcomes people of all genders, sexualities, and relationship structures and is a professional member of the Somatic Sex Educators Association Australia (SSEAA).
With lived experience of intimate partner domestic violence, Kate is committed to prevention, education, and supporting recovery from trauma, coercive dynamics, and systemic harm through embodied approaches to healing. More about the You’re A Strong Woman Foundation can be found here.
Call for inquiries or to make a booking – 0420 400 179
Bio
Kate was born and raised on a farm located south of country town Ardrossan in South Australia. She moved to Adelaide at the beginning of her career working in pharmacy before discovering a passion in health, fitness and personal training.
Kate spent several years studying before making the transition into this new role and business of Personal Training and Fitness.
She began to develop her natural intuitive and healing ability after a near death experience at the age of 29. She continued her work as a Personal Trainer, Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach soon realising the power of the work being channeled through her.
Her interests were naturally shifting from a somewhat rigid body/mind nature, and this inspired her to practice yoga, meditation and participate in personal growth and development programs with Landmark Worldwide. The liberation she experienced inspired further curiosity and spiritual inquiry.
Kate has journeyed overseas on many occasions to work with various Maestros and Maestras (Shamanic Healers), and Plant Spirits in Iquitos and Pucallpa, Peru, and Guatemala, Central America. Kate openly shares her story within this article – Healing and Expansion via Plant Medicines
Through her connection with Ayahuasca and other Master Plants, Kate’s perspective expanded and with this came a new level of healing, soul purpose and potential. Her path of ascension was both challenging and enjoyable. Soon she realised that her greatest aliveness was through embodiment; being fully present in her physical body. This led her to studying Conscious Sexuality, Somatic Sexology, Embodiment Therapy and Sexological Bodywork.
Kate completed the Sexual Shamanic Initiation Level I and II with ISTA, International School of Temple Arts, assisted Level I in Goa, India, has participated in Master Your Pleasure training with Elaine Young, the Shamanic Womb Journey with Janine Ma-Ree, and has studied Somatic Sexology with the Institute of Somatic Sexology (founded by Joseph Kramer) has a Certificate in Sexological Bodywork, is a Certified EFT Practitioner, and has a completed DV-alert 2-Day Foundations Workshop.
She has worked within various roles as a Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapist, Somatic Sexologist, Sexological Bodyworker, Nervous System Recovery Coach, Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, Intimacy & Relationship Coach, Psychedelic Integration Coach, EFT Practitioner, Plant Medicine Facilitator, Vibrational Attunement Coach, Counsellor, Nutrition & Life Coach, Writer, Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master, and Personal Trainer.
Education
– Certificate II & III Community Pharmacy – National Pharmacies
– Certificate IV Frontline Management – Anthony Stone Consultants
– Certificate IV Fitness & Personal Training – TAFE
– Certificate IV Nutrition & Food Coaching – College of Creative Design Arts
– Corrective Exercise Australia Workshops – Shoulder Function, Hip and Lower Limb Function, Rehab to Performance, Flexibility
– Pelvic Floor Workshop – Core Foundations
– Landmark Worldwide – The Landmark Forum, Advanced Course, Leadership Program, Communication Course
– Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor (150 hours) – Jimmy Barkan
– Certified Hatha Yoga Level II Instructor (50 hours) – Jimmy Barkan
– Trained in Kundalini Yoga – Maestro Kartar and Devi
– Certified Yin Yoga Instructor – Duncan Peak
– Certified Reiki Level I, II, III and Master
– Completed Sexual Shamanic Initiation Level I & II – International School of Temple Arts
– Assisted Sexual Shamanic Initiation Level I – International School of Temple Arts
– Trained with Elaine Young – Master Your Pleasure
– Shamanic Womb Journey with Janine Ma-Ree
– Somatic Sexology & Certificate Sexological Bodyworker – International Institute Somatic Sexology
– Certified EFT Practitioner – Mary-Ann Quezel
– Completed DV-alert 2-Day Foundations Workshop
– Kate brings over a decade of experience in plant medicine, having completed four medicinal plant dietas in Peru and participated in more than 80 Ayahuasca ceremonies, along with numerous personal and group journeys with Psilocybin, Huachuma, and 5-MeO-DMT
– Diploma in Somatic Therapy
