​Hello! I'm Katherine Saviskas, she/her

I live in Oakland, CA. My ancestral roots are in Lithuania and France, and I grew up in New York City and its suburbs.
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I love wading into the depths. I'm here to be with you in your unknowns, your big questions, your new experiences, and to explore mysterious terrains. ​I believe that living well includes showing up and being present enough to see what's wanting to happen in our lives and engaging in an ongoing conversation with the universe.

I honor and support your mental health, physical body, spiritual longings and practices, cultural identity, as well as your emotions. I believe that we are not our feelings or our thoughts, and the stories we tell ourselves are powerful.

I'm here to support you with a-ha moments and physical and mental tools for big life changes and crises. I'm also here to create communal support as you dive deep, including into your ancestral cultures, who you are, and how to live well.

​Which traditions and teachings are you rooted in?

​​My roots are more important to me than any western psychologist, though I study them too, mainly learning where their ideas originally came from, what they have taken from Eastern, African, Central and South American, Indigenous, pagan, and shamanistic cultures and spiritualities, and I return to the source.

​​My practice sees spirituality, connection to the land and our ancestral cultures, our bodies, trauma-informed approaches, and anti-oppression approaches as essential to living well as individuals, friends/families, and as a community.

Our sessions go beyond western psychology, beyond German and American psychologists, into ancient traditions, spiritual teachings, and philosophies of living well, where health and mental health are not separate from each other or from experiencing community, belonging, and resiliency.

The stories you tell yourself matter to your growth. The stories I feed myself matter too:

• I practice yoga, meditation, breathwork, Ayurveda, anti-racism, and the earth-based spirituality of my ancestors in Lithuania, as well as astrology, tarot, reiki, and the traditional medicines, rituals, and folk arts of my ancestors, from Lithuania and France.
• I study Indigenous Psychology, African Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Yoga Psychology, western wounds, and soul healing.
• I am trained in trauma-informed approaches, Ayurvedic approaches and Indigenous approaches to physical and mental health, which emphasize the whole person and their community.
• My background as an Ayurveda practitioner and yoga and meditation teacher grounds me in a holistic approach to digestion, breathwork, herbalism, and spiritual transformation.
• I am trained as a holistic coach and spiritual counselor to support: clients with developing their own spirituality, client empowerment, and the emergence of a-ha's & new norms.

Painting by Lina Alchimavičienė

​Values I have that ground my professional offerings:

​1. Client and student leadership is important. I support my clients and students in stepping into their leadership and trusting themselves to lead.

2. Community is powerful and necessary for health, healing, growing, and living through crises and processing them. I help clients and students build and deepen their community through the sessions and groups I facilitate, as well as beyond them.

3. Cultural identity matters. Developing new layers and sometimes shedding layers of our own cultural identities can open doors to our health, healing, happiness, growth, and existential peace. This can support racial justice and dismantling systemic racism.

4. Our bodies matter. Our bodies are involved in all the spiritual, psychological, and ancestral work we do. Our bodies offer helpful clues. Our bodies need our attention and love.

5. Cultivating and nourishing relationships with the land helps. Connecting to the earth, the land, and the neighborhoods we live in adds meaning and satisfaction to our lives.

6. Learning to show up and be present is essential to feeling alive, growing, and experiencing a satisfying life.

7. Learning to listen to what is wanting to happen in our life and releasing our own agendas helps us feel alive, grow, and experience a satisfying life.

​Credentials, education, and relevant training:

• Spiritual Counseling Certification (2025, California Institute of Integral Studies)
• Master's Degree in East-West Psychology (2025, California Institute of Integral Studies)
• Holistic Coaching Certification (2025, Wisdom of the Whole)
• RYT-50 Kriya-based Yoga Advanced Training (2023, Angie Hall)
• Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner (2015, Yoga Veda School)
• RYT-200 Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher (2014, Sattva Yoga Academy)
• Master's Degree in Urban Education (2012, Temple University)
• Bachelor's Degree in Education Studies (2006, Brown University)

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In progress:​

• Inherited Family Trauma Training (2026, Mark Wolynn)
• PhD in East-West Psychology (2029, California Institute of Integral Studies)