Katarzyna Rutkowska-Parkes
Vetted Orykl Practitioner

Katarzyna Rutkowska-Parkes

“Freedom”

  • Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
  • English, Polish
  • Female
  • All experience levels
Personality
Calm Direct Encouraging
Modalities
Quantum Healing EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Spiritual Counseling
Short bio

About Katarzyna

I work with people who've been doing the inner work for a while and have hit a wall — the kind of wall that thinking harder won't get through. Something's stuck underneath, and they know it. I tend to draw people into their body first, then we follow what's there. I use energy work and tapping, but I adapt everything to what the session is actually asking for. I came to this through my own depression, a failed business, losing my parents, and my sister — and a decade of living with an undiagnosed illness I kept hidden. So I know what it means to meet life in the dark, and I also know that something honest, steady, and deeply alive can still emerge from there.

An Orykl Session

What to expect

A session usually begins with conversation — you talk, I listen, and something starts to come into focus. From there, the pace slows. You might be asked to close your eyes, to notice where something lives in your body, what colour it is, how long it's been there. We work with what shows up rather than what you came prepared to say. Tools appear as needed — tapping, visualisation, quiet. Towards the end, if something real has shifted, I leave space for it to settle. You might leave lighter, more open, with one thread you hadn't seen before.

The longer story

How Katarzyna got here

My path into this work started with a failure. I wanted to open a coffee bar in Poland in the early 2000s — it was too early, the culture wasn't there yet, and it fell apart.

What followed was the usual thing: who am I, what am I doing, a depression that didn't announce itself cleanly. That's when I found psychosynthesis, and then a mentor who told me, in a way I didn't believe at first, that I was a healer.

I come from an academic family — both parents with PhDs, economics and politics, two MAs of my own. That background didn't disappear when I moved into this work; it sits alongside it.

I trained in energy healing through the College of Psychic Studies in London, then life alignment, then EFT. But the deeper education came from living.

I lost my mother, then my father, then my sister suddenly. I spent nearly ten years with an undiagnosed thyroid condition while pretending to the outside world that I was fine. I know what it costs to keep that mask on.

What I understand now, that I couldn't have understood earlier, is that the presenting problem is rarely the real one. People arrive with anxiety, or a stalled business, or burnout — and underneath, almost always, there's a question about worthiness. Am I enough? Do I deserve this?

I'm drawn to people who are intelligent and self-aware but have reached the limits of what thinking can do for them. They need to get into their bodies, and they often don't know how yet.

I work slowly and without a fixed route. I follow what comes up in the session, and I don't rush resolution or forgiveness — those are processes, not moments.

What I can offer is genuine presence, a breadth of perspective from having lived across cultures and through real losses, and a quiet conviction that there is always a way through. Not always the way we wanted. But always one.

Areas of focus

Specialisations

Career Work & Creativity Prosperity Abundance Money & Relationship Purpose Direction & Identity
Spiritual Awakening & Growth Stress Burnout & Grounding Physical Wellbeing Healing & Support Intuition Energy & Spiritual Practices
Credentials & Awards

Training & recognition

EFT International Completed in 2023
Life Alignment International Completed in 2012
Certification Badge
Psychosynthesis Trust Completed in 2007
Certification Badge
College of Psychic Studies Completed in 2008