The Invitation

With Elissa and Kathleen

I met Kathleen in August of 2014, I was just a year sober and got a job at Breathe Life Healing Centers, where she was the Clinical Director. She was doing a training and I was in awe of her! It was as if she was speaking everything that had been in my soul. I went up to her after, introduced myself and was so inspired that I asked her if she could be my mentor if I went to school. She obliged but had no idea just how serious I was. I went to school and began assisting her at Family Week, where she would do hours of experiential Psychodrama’s. I was mystified by the healing I saw take place. Over the years we developed our relationship and deeply value working together. We created “The Invitation” to run intensives ranging from a weekly group to 1-5 days.

Kathleen Murphy, M.A., LMFT, LPC is the Executive Clinical Director of Breathe Life Healing Centers West Hollywood. Kathleen’s career is built on more than 30 years of experience working with people suffering from substance abuse issues complicated by relational trauma.

Kathleen has made use of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, IFS, AEDP, Interpersonal Neurobiology, polemics, and didactics. Her focus on psycho-education, and experiential group processes heavily influenced by attachment theory as well as psychodramatic techniques, assist clients in reframing and reclaiming the self as a being in relationship.

Prior to joining Breathe as the founding Clinical Director, Kathleen had the honor of deepening her experiential group therapy skills at Breakthrough at Caron Treatment Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.

She has a passion for the practice and teaching of Kundalini Yoga, Sound Healing, Zen Buddhism, and all the wisdom traditions she enjoys mental gymnastics, poetry and philosophical discourse as a way to help clients change their state of being.

Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Credentialed Counselor, Kathleen is trained in Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, Level 2 EMDR L and as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and is a member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and National Board of Credentialed Counselors. Additionally, Kathleen is a Certified Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher and certified by Mehtab Benton in Gong Yoga therapy.