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Contributor Biography
Educator, academic leader, and founding naturopathic organizer whose work joined institutional development with deeply relational clinical practice.
Education and Institution Building
Cathy Rogers graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1976.
She joined Bastyr University in 1981 as Dean of Admissions, only three years after the school was founded, and later became Academic Dean through the years in which Bastyr achieved accreditation.
Clinical Life
In 1999, she created a day retreat on Puget Sound near Seattle, offering contrast hydrotherapy treatments in nature for fourteen years.
Her practice and teaching over nearly five decades focused on using the therapeutic relationship in a body-based psychotherapeutic approach to engage clients’ own self-healing resources.
Why She Belongs Here
Cathy Rogers helps show that the Academy was not built only by theorists and policy leaders, but also by clinicians and educators who carried the work relationally and practically.