Catharine “Cathy” Dress graduated from Radford University in 1980 with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Disorders. She completed her graduate level work at Old Dominion University and holds a Certificate of Clinical Competency in Speech Pathology. Cathy has studied holistic energy medicine since 2011 is a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Accunect™ Practitioner, and Certified Accunect™ SelfCare Instructor. She brings additional modalities and knowledge into individual client sessions, including Matrix Energetics, BreakThrough, and CFT. With her knowledge as a Speech Pathologist, she knows the importance of the breath cycle for overall health and stress reduction. She is also a Certified Speech/Language Pathologist (CCC-SLP) and she brings that knowledge to her CFT work with infants, children, and adults. She is a member of ASHA, SHAV, IBA-BodyTalk Association, Hands On Trade Association
Coursework includes Accunect™ Connect, Accunect™ Zoom, Accunect™ Traditional Chinese Medicine, BodyTalk (BT) Fundamentals I and II, BT Fundamentals Integration, BT Consciousness, BT BreakThrough BT lymphatic Drainage and Applied Physiology, MindScape, Fascial Balancing, Fascial Balancing for babies, Gillespie Approach -CFT, Matrix Energetics, American Sign Language, Cued Speech, Ski-Hi, DIR Floortime, and numerous speech therapy courses and continuing education.
Sessions can be done in person or by distance via Skype, ooVoo, or phone.
Catharine’s Story
Several years ago doctors diagnosed me with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, asthma, osteoarthritis, sleep disorder and reflux. All of this was triggered from illnesses and injuries from childhood to adulthood. It’s so easy to see how one trauma or injury or illness can snowball into other things when it reaches the chronic stage.
The doctors were throwing all sorts of pills and surgeries at me and were only looking at the diagnoses, and not at the patient-me, the WHOLE me. I would literally get put to bed in horrible physical pain when I did too much, too little, and even when the weather changed. I wasn’t able to share in my family’s life, my life. Work had to drop from 30-40 hours a week to 10-15 hours and then I would have to go to bed or lie down on the couch for several hours. I was on several prescription medications and just felt weak, tired and stressed out all the time and literally had to go to that rock bottom point where I was sick and tired of being sick and tired!
Then, my doctor put me on partial disability and I was devastated. It truly felt like no one was listening and at times I felt so powerless. And that was NOT me! I’ve always been a bit of a rebel and a fighter when it comes to what’s right for me, so I started doing more natural and holistic things like chiropractic, physical therapy, massage therapy, yoga, and tai chi. They were helping me heal, but something was still missing.
One day, my chiropractor asked me if I’d ever thought of having an energy balancing consciousness session to help me heal because we were constantly putting the same things back together and progress was stalling. I asked what it was, how does it work and what do you mean my body can naturally help heal itself? No doctor had EVER told me that.
I got an appointment with a local BodyTalk/Accunect™ practitioner and I haven’t looked back since. It was the missing piece to my health puzzle! Energy healthcare has given me my life back and opened up a healing journey beyond what I’d ever hoped for. I got back my passion for life, and absolutely know firsthand the miracle of healing and empowerment! Being able to let go of the emotional charges around injuries, physical and emotional trauma, beliefs, perceptions and the stress that it all created in my body has been incredibly freeing! Illness no longer rules my life and every day is a healing journey now.
I use these balancing techniques in my professional life and daily for myself and with my family. I am back to teaching, which I am passionate about, only now I get the privilege of teaching energy balancing techniques through Accunect™ SelfCare classes-so awesome to do for yourself and others! And the best part is that ANYONE can learn these techniques and use them every day!
My life’s direction has totally changed, thanks to energy consciousness work and I feel so blessed and grateful to now be able to share it with you professionally.
So what can I do for you today? What are you ready to let go of, in order to live life to the fullest?
Are you ready to start your healing journey?
Call me and make an appointment today. Your life is waiting for you!