About Karallyn

“I have known Kara on a variety of levels over the years and have found her to be a woman of compassion and kindness. Her skill of working with others offers a nurturing doorway in moving forward through the pain and/or finding yourself emotionally stuck. Foremost Kara has recognized and taken to heart that we all learn from integrating our own healing process, and that in turn allows us to be more fully present when working with others. Through the years, I have seen Kara step into her own deeper wisdom and trust in knowing what is called for at the moment. Kara is a warm-hearted and compassionate woman who cares deeply about her work and how she can facilitate the healing of her clients in moving toward a happy and healthier life. She offers to others what she has learned and practiced within herself.”

Rik Center, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain, and Co-Founder of Mindfulness Care Center

Karallyn Streit, LMBT, CHT

NC LMBT #22634

Karallyn’s desire to help others is a direct result of her abusive and traumatic childhood. She has devoted herself to working with others in a healing capacity since 2001.

Karallyn’s studies have included therapeutic massage and bodywork, somatic healing, energy medicine, Buddhist psychology, transpersonal psychology, shamanism, animism, holistic health, parts work, and consciousness studies. She is a twice-trained and twice-certified massage therapist with over 1000 hours of training in massage and bodywork. She is currently licensed in the state of North Carolina.

Karallyn is a poet and a nature lover. The support she offers others is greatly informed by her personal healing work and 24 years of working with others.

She is currently enrolled in her advanced year of the three-year Somatic Experiencing practitioner training program with Somatic Experiencing International, the work of Dr. Peter Levine.

Karallyn is a writer for Spiritual Tree and Being Known on Medium and is a ‘The Mighty’ contributor.

“The wisdom of the body is the healer of trauma.

The body keeps the score, but it also holds the key to healing.”

Peter Levine

A Little About My Journey

I believe that the most adept healers walking the Earth are those who truly have walked their own healing path and overcome personal trauma. We can all learn so much about healing, to be sure, but to walk the path from utter darkness into the light is a whole other story. When we traverse these back roads ourselves, we become very adept at navigating the darkness, the realms that are unseen and unknown to so many, and as a result, we become wonderful way showers for others.

I don’t want to get too much into my history here, for my past is something that I went through and in no way reflects who I have become, but I do feel that it is important to share with those that I am here to help who may have been through similar traumas. I am a survivor of childhood trauma and what has helped me the most are the very tools that I offer my clients and students.

I grew up in an alcoholic family, a child of every kind of abuse: physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as neglect. There was no real support and there was constant chaos in my childhood, with no safe people to help me feel loved and cared for. From the beginning, I did not feel safe in the world at all and neither of my parents was there for me emotionally in any way. I felt isolated and alone, and I felt somehow deeply broken.

When I was only eight years old, my mother died by suicide. This was the pivotal event that changed the entire course of my life. Not long after, my father remarried an abusive, mean-hearted woman and things somehow went from bad to worse. Years of mental and emotional abuse followed, filled with manipulation, gaslighting, control, and domination, and my father sat idly doing nothing to defend or protect me. It was horrific on many levels.

All of these events shaped who I became as a young adult. I had little sense of self and was completely traumatized and without any kind of healthy support or guidance. For years, I was stumbling around in the darkness of anxiety, depression, hopelessness, self-hatred, unresolved grief, and trauma. I struggled with addiction and chronic and debilitating fear. It took me decades to come to terms with my mother’s early death and the abuses that I suffered, but I did. I was finally able to heal my life and reclaim my power.

It took me a long time to recognize that the things that I went through shaped me in beneficial and not-so-beneficial ways. How would one benefit from a childhood of trauma and pain? Well…my pain is the very thing that led me on a path of self-healing and self-discovery, and on the path to becoming a healer.

I look forward to the opportunity to support you in your healing journey.

“Karallyn is an accomplished healer. I have known her for well over a decade and have witnessed her boundless transformations… from a frightened girl struggling to survive her horrific childhood traumas… to embracing courage and inner strength… and having become the confident woman and exceptional healer that she is today.”

D.W., 2013

Karallyn Streit with nature

Certifications and Studies

ONGOING TRAINING

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training - Three-year professional training with Somatic Experiencing International (Advanced Year, due to be completed August 2025)

Upledger Institute - CranioSacral Therapy and Somato Emotional Release

Training, Certifications, and Experience

Certified Advanced Massage Therapist (Master Bodyworker Program) – (2001) World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts, San Francisco

Swedish massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Lymphatic Massage, Foot Reflexology, Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy I, II, III, IV

Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist (North Carolina) - (2025) Center For Massage & Natural Health, Asheville (654 Hour Program)

Upledger Institute - CranioSacral Therapy Level One (2025)

Certified Holistic Health Practitioner – (2002) World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts

Usui Reiki Master Teacher  –

  • Levels I, II & III Master Class (2005) Jill Alstrand

  • A second set of Usui attunements (2009), Foundation of the Sacred Stream (part of Energy Medicine Program)

Certified Hypnotherapist (Depth Hypnosis)– (2009) Foundation of the Sacred Stream

Ordained as a minister in the spiritual counseling practice of Depth Hypnosis

Certified Advanced Shamanism Practitioner –

  • Shamanic Journey Course with Michael Harner (2008)

  • Shamanism and Energy Medicine – The Lightbody School (Four Winds Society) (2009)

  • Shamanism I and II

  • Advanced Shamanism

  • Shamanic Counseling

  • Psychopomp and the Guiding of Souls

  • Huna Studies Levels I and II (Hawaiian Shamanism) on the Big Island of Hawaii (2008 and 2010)

  • Shamanic Course in the Orkney Islands, Scotland (2008)

  • Shamanic Course at Mesa Verde (2010)

Energy Medicine Training – (2001 – 2010)

The World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts, Foundation of the Sacred Stream, Four Winds Society

Empowered Living Courses — (2008 - 2010) Foundation of the Sacred Stream

  • Working With Dreams

  • Relationships I, II, III

  • Tracking Spirit in the Birth Environment

  • The Path of Service

  • Initiations of the Sacred Feminine

  • Grief and Loss

  • The Worlds Beyond Death

Life Coach Training – (2014) Coach Training Alliance

Priestess Ordination – (2014 – 2015) 13 Moon Mystery School & Sanctuary of the Open Heart

Dedicated Buddhist Practice and Study (Ongoing) (2004 – Present)

  • Daily meditation and mindfulness practice

  • Multiple residential meditation retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  • Ongoing Self-study of Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan, and Dzogchen lineages

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course (Rik Center)

  • Buddhist Psychology I and II (Sacred Stream)

  • Advanced Buddhist Psychology Program (Sacred Stream)

Further Past Spiritual Studies Include — Vedanta, Sufism, Metaphysical Science

Animist Psychology - (2021) Dr. Daniel Foor (Ancestral Medicine)

Foundations of Ritual - (2021) Dr. Daniel Foor (Ancestral Medicine)

Certified Trauma Recovery Coach - (2021) IAOTRC - International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaches

Entering the Healing Ground - Grief tending/ritual training with Francis Weller, author of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow”