Brainspotting with Katherine

07/23/2025

07/23/2025

07/22/2025

You can listen to / watch this episode of Adoption: The Making of Me at...

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WqMNB4KcG50j4VTabqugT?si=a62a1f8892404c12

On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adoption-the-making-of-me-an-oral-history-of-adoptee-stories/id1565403354?i=1000718413991

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/DIgvuaK__NA?si=jDc399z89wXoW5Yn

Katherine Allen McNally is an adoptee and a licensed therapist who specializes in working with adoptees and their adoptive families. She transitioned from a career in graphic design and advertising to pursue this path, driven by a deep personal commitment to supporting this unique population. Over the course of her work, she has encountered a wide spectrum of adoption narratives, including various forms of conception, gestation, birth, relinquishment, adoption, and survival. These experiences led her, along with a colleague, to develop a trauma healing model known as The TAG Method for Trauma Reprocessing and Integration.

At the heart of The TAG Method lies the adoption experience. Katherine is passionate about sharing this model and its insights with broader audiences. She believes that adoption represents a significant and often overlooked trauma—one that is visible yet rarely acknowledged. In her work, she explores how adoptees navigate attachment loss, the silent fear of being “not chosen” again, and the emotional impact often referred to as “the cloud.” She also discusses the “three As” and how these themes influence the adoptee experience.

Katherine shares how clients access these deep-seated pains and begin the process of healing, ultimately freeing themselves from a trauma they never asked to carry. She also offers personal reflections from her own healing journey, enriching her professional insights with lived experience.

11/09/2024

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10/23/2024

Tomorrow! Link to register for free is in comments.

08/27/2024

Read this week's best, in one place at the link – the qualities of a healthy mind and a healthy relationship, how our limits can become frontiers of growth and transformation, the penguin's antidote to abandonment: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/winnicott-penguin-boundaries

06/09/2024

This week's highlightable delights, in one place – polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection, John Quincy Adams on impostor syndrome, a tender vintage Japanese meditation on love and loss: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/polyvagal

04/03/2024

Yessss!

An accessibility feature on iPhones for people with cognitive disabilities has a number of other uses. We tested it as an iPod, a kid’s phone and a home phone.

03/10/2024

To all who are grieving right now: You are not alone.

Our hearts are breaking in the face of unspeakable violence and death. Our senses are overwhelmed and it is hard to resist despair.

Grieving releases the energy for action. And the only way to do that is together. Let us fortify each other.

Who can share this grief with you?
Can you take one step toward them?

If your heart beats fast, it’s okay. Breathe through it.

"You don’t need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them." - Valarie Kaur

Share songs and stories and poetry and music. Channel energy into returning to our humanity and one another.

Practice the world as it could be ❤️

03/08/2024

Thoughts welcome! ❤️

03/07/2024

02/06/2024

So, we did it.
We created and delivered a 20-week comprehensive trauma training and a new trauma model.
Everyone got it!
I am weeping with pride and joy and (dis)belief and relief and excitement - and we are ready to do it again!

Registration is open for the Early 2024 Cohorts!
https://www.tagmethod.com/register/

We look forward to you joining us on this amazing journey!!

The TAG Method for Trauma Reprocessing and Integration is a LIVE 20-session, 40-hour online training. Enrolled students will receive: a training manual live course instruction selected music tracks access to selected videos and articles access to "Office Hours" with Katherine and Maria for 1:1 time....