If you’re looking for someone who can help you heal, grow, and navigate the messiness of postpartum life, Caitlin Arce, LPC, is your person! Based in Louisville, Colorado, Caitlin runs Embody the Temple Healing Arts, where she offers hands-on healing and somatic psychotherapy. Her focus? Feminine embodiment and reproductive health challenges, especially for postpartum mamas and those working through trauma.
“I honestly think I was made for this work,” Caitlin says. “Feminine healing work blasted my life open in awe and inspiration, so I’ve never looked back.”
How It All Started
Caitlin always knew she wanted to be in a helping profession. She started out as an arts-based psychotherapist but quickly realized something was missing. “I burnt out without including the body into my work,” she explains.
That’s when she stumbled into womb work and found her calling. “I started integrating feminine healing work, and it changed everything. Though now, I’ve re-integrated somatic therapy into my business as well.”
Why Caitlin Loves Her Job
“I love watching women transform,” Caitlin says. “It’s incredible to see their authentic selves emerge as they release trauma, heal reproductive health concerns, and cultivate unshakable self-trust and self-love. Watching them take up more space in their bodies and their lives is endlessly inspiring.”
She also feels deeply honored by the connections she builds with her clients. “For one of my clients, I got to work with her postpartum as she grew her entire family. I was her postpartum healer for her first birth and just got to close with her after her third and final birth. It was so profound to support someone through that entire chapter of her life.”
What Might Surprise You About Caitlin’s Work
“I think people are surprised about how much of their messy, full, authentic selves they can be when they come to a session,” Caitlin shares. “Clients sometimes sob or growl in sessions. They talk about their sex lives, from orgasms to STDs. They pray to their deities and invite ancestors in for support. They ramble like they’re talking to their best friends and also sit in silence and learn to listen to what their bodies are whispering in this silence.”
And when it comes to in-home postpartum work? “I expect that your house will be a mess and that there will most likely be at least one bodily fluid I’ll be exposed to,” Caitlin says with a laugh. “I want my clients to come as they are, and postpartum is usually the messiest time of all for folks. I’m here for it.”
Busting Myths About Healing Work
One common misconception Caitlin wants to address is that healers are the ones doing the “fixing.” “Healers aren’t ‘healing you,’” she says. “My role, as a healer, isn’t to ‘do something’ to you to make you feel better. It’s to help you get out of your own way so your most healed self can organically emerge. You come see a healer when YOU are ready to do your healing work.”
Caitlin’s Top Postpartum Tip
Caitlin emphasizes the importance of nourishing foods during postpartum recovery. “I didn’t understand until I experienced it myself just how important eating warming, nourishing foods can be. If I have another baby, I will put more emphasis on this as I truly believe it is essential for postpartum recovery—for both physical healing and mental health.”
Life Beyond Healing
Outside of work, Caitlin loves to dance, paint, hike, and spend time with her adorable toddler. Her spirituality is also a big part of her life, and she regularly attends faith services.
And if she weren’t doing this work? “I love figuring people out. I think I’d be a psychologist or a scientist if I hadn’t found this work. But figuring people out in those ways fed my ego, whereas my current profession feeds my soul. I’m definitely where I should be. It’s even in my astrology chart that I should work in feminine healing work!”
Connect with Caitlin
Are you ready to embrace your healing journey with Caitlin? Here’s where you can find her:
🌐 Embody the Temple Healing Arts
📸 @embodythetemple
📧 Caitlin@hundredleaf.com
📞 720-507-4417
And if you’re a birth worker or postpartum practitioner, Caitlin is hosting a training you won’t want to miss! Learn more here: Postpartum Practitioner Training.
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