beyondtheimprint

“We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we've become”

​ - David R. Hawkins -

Kate O’Connell, LPC is a writer, graphic artist, professional photographer and Child and Family Therapist with a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia addressing the therapeutic needs of children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Her training in Intensive-in-Home Services, Addiction, Family Systems Therapy, Energy Medicine and Shamanic Healing enables her to facilitate positive outcomes for her clients while advocating for them within the legal, academic, medical and social systems. Her three books, Beyond the Imprint; A New Modality for Mental Health Practitioner’s and Those Seeking Their Help  and  Getting Beyond the Imprint; A Complete Guide for Dissolving Our Imprints and the Bondage of Perception and FreedomBeyond the Imprint; A Spiritual Perspective for Absolute Neutrality and Unconditional Acceptance are available on Amazon.com. To purchase her books go to the ‘Publications’ page on this website.

Finnegan Begin Again O’Connell was born on July 4, 2022, in Tazewell, Virginia. He came home with us on October 29, 2022, and learned so much so quickly from his big brother, Linus, in preparation for also becoming a certified therapy dog. Finn has already proven himself to be an incredibly magical, gentle, and heartfelt addition to our therapeutic practice with his insatiable curiosity, tremendous poise, and contagious ‘Joie de Vivre’.

In Memoriam

Linus Ananda O’Connell was born on November 3, 2013 in Tazewell, Virginia during a full solar eclipse. I became aware of his existence in response to a dream I had that day and on December 22, 2013 Linus came home to live with me. Linus was my best friend, my guru, and my co-therapist. He held tremendous space in more than two thousand therapy sessions for hundreds of individuals spanning all ages and backgrounds who came to heal lifetimes of deep ancestral trauma at the cellular level. On May 19, 2023, after nine and a half years of being the most unconditionally loving reflection for all who came in contact with him – His. Heart. Just. Stopped. I am forever grateful for all of the wisdom, insights, and awareness I gleaned from this very Wise Soul. It was a profound relationship and, as it turns out, the greatest gift he ever gave me was my immense ‘cracking open’ when he left. I am forever changed. My capacity to accept the unthinkable and to love unconditionally without attachments has grown exponentially. Thank you so much, Linus. You were an amazing reflection and your profound, healing presence will be forever missed.

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Who I Am Becoming

Kate O'Connell, LPC

Who I am becoming is no longer the past or the future but rather, increasingly more comfortable in the present moment with myself.

I trust in a process that is unfolding that is greater than you or I and am in awe of having arrived at a place in my life in which I am able to consciously participate in it with some degree of awareness.

Who I am becoming is primarily for the purpose of sharing with others with the hope that it will contribute to the greater good and I offer it up unconditionally with no attachments as to how it is received or by whom.

I trust that everything I have created would not have been sparked within me had there not been a greater purpose for my having created it and I trust that those who will benefit from what I’ve created will find their way to it.

I marvel in the truth, wisdom and beauty of the scars that have shaped and guided me to this very moment as I continue to unlearn everything that I have learned from wounded people.

I now understand that this is what it means to heal as I let go of what no longer serves me by withdrawing from previous roles, labels, identities, alliances and expressions of conditioned reality that I have outgrown.

In doing so, old, outworn illusions, attachments and fear-based perceptions and patterns dissolve. 

​In doing so, lifetimes of shame-based, self-limiting judgments and beliefs are finally released.

This allows me to stay more open and receptive to what is possible by leaning into my fears.

In doing so, I am able to embody an entirely different experience; one that is imbued with fuller expressions of health, well-being and personal freedom.

And since freedom is simply the allowance of everything being exactly as it is; it is important to remember that every single, solitary moment is my guru – every traffic jam, every relationship, every addiction, every disappointment, every illness, every betrayal, every inconvenience and every loss.

In each of these moments I still have much to learn and much to share; including the realization that I am the medicine that I have always been seeking outside of myself and that when I heal; everything around me heals.

"May we mend this outer world according to the truth of our inner life and may our souls be shaped and nourished by nature's eternal wisdom"

- Michael Leunig -

The International Association of Top Professionals selected

Kate O’Connell, LPC as Top Family Therapist for 2021.