“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

—RUMI

Meet Kim

Kim Southerland, M.A., is an educational therapist and energy intuitive with more than three decades of experience supporting neurodivergent, energetically sensitive, and empathic children — and their parents and caregivers. She is also a light language channel and telepathic communicator — capacities that many of these children share.

Across learning centers, hospital settings, and private practice, Kim brings a deep understanding of heightened sensitivities and different forms of learning — such as dyslexia, ADHD, and language-based processing. She understands how these shape not only behavior and emotions, but the unique lens through which each of us perceives our inner and outer worlds.

As an empathic child herself, and a mother who raised two energetically sensitive children, Kim brings lived experience to the delicate balance of parent–child and family relationships.

Rather than trying to fix or change a child's learning or behavior, she helps parents step into deeper trust, connection, and communication — with themselves and their child — while giving children and adolescents a foundation that honors who they are.

Kim bridges evidence-based learning modalities, neuroscience, and nervous-system regulation with the ability to sense, feel, and translate subtle energy into language that supports her clients. She sees communication as more than words — energy, too, is a language, one that shapes family systems, especially when one or more members are energetically sensitive. Her sessions offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space of safety and trust, where each person can relax into greater resonance with their true nature — moving beyond limiting beliefs and patterns, into greater love and intimacy with themselves and others, and reconnecting with their own inner guidance.

Kim works with both neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals, offering parents a multidimensional perspective of their child alongside practical tools and strategies that create lasting, positive change in the parent–child relationship.

She offers online sessions worldwide and in-person sessions in West Los Angeles.

Credentials & Certifications

1994–1996: K&M Learning Center — Santa Monica, California
1996–1997: Raskob Learning Institute
1996–1998: Post-Graduate Training in Psychoeducational Assessments — California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

1996–1998: Lindamood Bell — ADD/LIPS and Visualizing & Verbalizing
2000: Fast ForWord
2008: Step Up to Writing
2009: Words Their Way Spelling Program
2011: Lindamood Bell — Lips, Seeing Stars, Visualizing & Verbalizing, Talkies
2011: Read Naturally
2017: Wilson Language Training
2018: The Power of Our Stories Writing Program
2018–2019: Oaklander Model of Gestalt Therapy with Children — Levels I, II & III

2011–2016: Unified Theory of Inborn Personality
2016: Light Language — Levels 1 and 2
2016–2017: Sound Anatomy Apprenticeship
2017: ICU Academy Training
2019: Sound and Voice Healing Apprenticeship — Level 2
2019: Light Language for Practitioners — Level 3
2020: ICU Academy — Training 2
2023: Original Sight Practitioner Training
2024: Light Language Accelerator

Bachelor's Degree — San Diego State University
Master's Degree in Educational Psychology — California State University at Northridge. Graduated with Distinction (4.0)

2007–2010: Creative Dreamwork with Kim Gillingham
2011: Inner Kids Mindful Awareness Course — Susan Kaiser Greenland
2012–2013: Dr. Dan Siegel — Mindsight Lecture Series
2016: Coming Into the Body — Using Mindfulness to Work with Trauma
2019: Learning and The Brain Conference — Empathy in Education
2019: Vision and Leadership in 2e Education Symposium
2020: Learning and The Brain Conference — Educating Anxious Brains
2021 & 2023: Autism Integration Series with Suzy Miller

Association of Educational Therapists — Professional Member
Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS)
SAND (Science and Non-Duality)
Bridges 2e Center for Research and Professional Development
Board Member, HeArt for Charity

Kim is available to speak with parent groups, educators, professionals, and media outlets upon request.

Every child deserves to be truly seen, supported, and understood — and every family deserves the same.

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