About Us

Kathleen has been an Occupational Therapist for 25 years. She is the founder of RxOutside and the Nature Led Approach, co-founder of the Central Coast Village Center: Outside Now! local non-profit organization. She has worked with Jon Young and the 8 Shields Institute for the last 18 years, studied with Rosemary Gladstar (a World-renowned herbalist), and raised two beautiful young women. Kathleen has spent the last 25 years collecting the best and most valid scientific evidence to support the development of a meaningful, functional model of practice: The Nature Led Approach. This model supports people across the lifespan using ancient techniques for habilitating and rehabilitating children, adolescents, and adults, because Nature— it's what's outside— that developed what's inside!

Kathleen lives in the hills of the Central Coast of California where her neighbors are mostly wild.