Katrin Christensen-Cowan

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
Yoga Teacher 

Within you is a drive toward wholeness, healing, and meaningful engagement in the world. Psychotherapy and yoga are powerful tools to help you access this drive, however inaccessible it may feel. Psychotherapy can also help develop your capacity to have deeper and more satisfying friendships and romantic relationships.    I work with individuals across the spectrum of age, race, gender and sexual orientation.  I also work with couples and groups.  

In addition to my work as a psychotherapist, I have over 15 years of experience as a yoga teacher.  As part of my practice at Water’s Edge Psychotherapy, I offer individualized yoga nidra sessions (a guided healing and relaxation practice, click here for more info).  In some cases, if it feels relevant to you we might bring meditation, guided relaxation or even some movement into your therapy work.  Even when I am not explicitly bringing yoga or meditation into a therapy session, my background as a yoga teacher encourages me to pay special attention to the body and the breath and to the ways in which we hold emotion—both painful emotion and longing for growth—in our bodies.

I received my Master of Social Work from the University of St. Thomas/College of St. Catherine and my Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University.  I have done additional training in psychodynamic psychotherapy through The Hamm Clinic and The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where I completed a clinical fellowship. I have studied yoga with many wonderful teachers over the years, including Ananda Ma, Baron Baptiste, Ben Vincent and Shiva Rea. I am grateful to be a part of the Tantric Hatha Yoga lineage and to study under my teacher Yogarupa Rod Stryker (www.parayoga.com).