Introducing Kate & Spiritual Care

Spirituality is a vital aspect of your whole-person health. You could pause to consider: have you ever struggled with your sense of identity or experience of connection in the midst of a crisis? Perhaps you’ve had to learn how to navigate the world in a new way after a major loss or life change. These are situations that can ultimately deepen your connection with your inner world and your spiritual needs, such as belonging, trust, purpose, and growth.

Each of us will face challenges that can aid our growth and transformation. We are given real opportunity to move through pain and suffering into a place of greater self-understanding, confidence, hope and joy.

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Kate Caldwell, M.Div. is a clinically trained healthcare chaplain and trauma sensitive yoga facilitator who can equip you to care for the spiritual aspect of your whole-person wellbeing. She offers spiritual counseling and teaches awareness practices that can help you reconnect with your sense of agency, self-trust, compassion, and creativity.

Spiritual Care honors the reality that we are conscious beings, choosing how to live. Since every person embodies the spiritual aspect of health in a different way, spiritual care can take many different forms. My aim is to teach clients body-based awareness practices that can help you move through and beyond painfully stuck patterns of belief and behavior. With practice, you can more freely connect with your personal agency and make choices that uphold your core beliefs and values, even when it feels difficult. The foundation of my therapeutic practice is to honor your innate wisdom and power to heal and grow, so that you can live your life fully.

What happens in a spiritual care session with Kate? I offer potential clients a free 20-minute phone consultation to make sure that my approach is a good fit for your needs. Each session is client-driven and collaborative. We’ll work together to clarify your needs and goals for wellbeing, during our initial discussion and ongoing conversation. In each session, you can choose which elements are most supportive for you. Supportive elements can include: spiritual inquiry & counseling, grief care, yoga & trauma-sensitive movement practice, breath work, guided meditation, Reiki energy work, and exploring your creative self-expression.

I have extensive experience helping individuals navigate grief & loss, trauma, addiction, chronic or serious illness, and various forms of life transition. My commitment is to provide you with a nonjudgmental, welcoming, and nurturing environment where you can address root causes of symptoms like overwhelm or despair, build your capacity for trust and self-integration, and learn concrete awareness skills that can support your ongoing self-care and personal growth. I work with clients who have many different personal spiritual, religious, and philosophical orientations. I would be honored to join with you in your process of personal and spiritual growth.

Kate's Story

Kate’s rich and varied life experiences have shaped her approach to offering spiritual care to people from many walks of life, who face many different challenges. Her curiosity about the world’s deeper realities led her to Earlham College to study world religions, then to Princeton Theological Seminary to earn her Masters of Divinity. During her time in seminary, she studied the cultural and historical aspects of religion and theology, as well as the process of interfaith dialogue.

Kate’s deep concern is to honor how our personal beliefs inform our actions, ultimately co-creating the world we share. She is passionate about helping others move through suffering and shadow into healing and joy, by examining patterns that impede growth and building self-trust and compassion. She has much to share from walking her own spiritual path, as we’re all invited to do.

Her commitment to the care of land and people has guided Kate’s path as a spiritual caregiver. She has served as a hospital and hospice chaplain since 2017, earned her Rule 31 Mediation Certification in 2012, and has served as an advocate with individuals and families suffering from addiction for more than a decade. She’s furthered her study of spiritual philosophy as a 500-Hour Certified Yoga Teacher, earning her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification in 2020 and becoming a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) in 2024. She earned her Reiki II certification in 2021, and culminated her Reiki Mastership training and certification in 2024.

Through her life experiences and academic studies, Kate has witnessed how spirituality, human wellbeing, and healthy ecologies are intimately linked. She has volunteered on farms and gardens around the world, earned a Permaculture Design Certificate in 2014, and served as a long-term board member then as board president for an East Tennessee Farmer’s Market.

In leisurely moments, Kate enjoys wandering forests, climbing rocks, reading copiously, playing with words, and strumming her banjo. She is immensely grateful for her many loved ones who have nurtured and guided her own spiritual evolution. Kate knows that healing happens in community, and she would be honored to accompany you on your spiritual path. Her great hope is that you can learn to practice care and compassion for yourself, so that you can live joyfully and express your unique gifts in a world that needs them.

What is Awareness Arts Collective?

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Name: Awareness Arts Collective, LLC
Address: 100 Cherokee Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN, 37405, US
Telephone: 423-939-9585

wake up to your own sacredness, wisdom, and freedom

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explore your natural gifts and capacity for self-expression

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honor the reality of interconnection and reclaim life-giving ways of being together on this planet

Awareness Arts Collective, LLC exists to 1) address the root causes of suffering from a spiritual perspective, and 2) support the process of healing and growth by teaching awareness skills that can help you connect with your personal agency, embodied wisdom, and unique gifts.

Click here for community-based events and workshops. To learn more about Kate's approach to spirituality and spiritual care, you can visit my Signs of Life blog.

Still have questions? Please reach out!

Call or Text: 423-939-9585

Email: kate@awarenessartscollective.com

I would be honored to support and celebrate the potential that you uniquely embody.