{"id":36,"date":"2011-01-18T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kikkei.com\/is\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-05-02T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:37:46","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"About Kathryn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/b001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"873\" height=\"326\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>My background in helping people is a combination of formal schooling and life experience. Early in my career I earned my B.A. from the University of Minnesota and proceeded directly into child welfare advocacy working in community outreach for early child intervention. I spent 15 years tirelessly working as a guardian ad litum, foster parent, parent advocate and child abuse\/neglect specialist. It was also my privilege to live and work internationally in Mexico, Greece and Sweden where my professional outlook was permanently altered by multi-cultural influences. Living a year in Sweden, learning the language and immersing myself in the people and the culture there left me with a lifelong love and special connection to the country of Sweden. It is a fond wish of mine to return and make a home there.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 I decided to pursue my MSW at the University of Washington and the degree opened new professional doors to me. At this point in my life I began to shift focus to a pursuit of greater meaning and depth both personally and professionally. I was moved to take my accumulated experience, skills and multi-cultural grounding and unite them with a program of deeper study and inquiry to combine into a deeper, more truly responsive approach to therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My background in helping people is a combination of formal schooling and life experience. Early in my career I earned my B.A. from the University of Minnesota and proceeded directly into child welfare advocacy working in community outreach for early child intervention. I spent 15 years tirelessly working as a guardian ad litum, foster parent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inner-source.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}