CATE NOELLERT

REFLECTIVE SUPERVISOR

Rev. Cate Noellert is a Deacon in the United Methodist Church whose work and ministry have centered around care of others and expression of self. After graduating from Candler School of Theology in 2005, Cate completed a year of Clinical Pastoral Education through the VA System in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA, staying to work as a Staff Chaplain afterwards. She concurrently pursued a Masters of Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, graduating in 2009 after completing her thesis on the socialization of adolescent girls regarding anger and body image. While working as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern in San Jose, CA, Cate began local church ministry as the Pastor of Congregational Care at Los Altos UMC. Other areas of her ministry have included leading workshops and trainings on emotional resilience, self-care, and pastoral care, working in Leadership Development for the California-Nevada Annual Conference and consulting on the creation of Legacy Congregations.

Cate’s work as a Reflective Pastoral Supervisor and Trainee Supervisor allows her to use her gifts of deep listening, teaching, and hospitality, and to engage her passion for creating safe, boundaried spaces in which people can ask honest questions, reflect deeply and creatively, and live more fully into the truth of who they are. Nothing is more exciting to her than what can emerge when people show up authentically to engage a question or explore themselves! She is informed by the Rogerian method of unconditional positive regard, Jungian concepts of depth psychology, and a foundational belief in God as a creative and life-encouraging force.

She currently lives in Austin, TX with her husband, their two boys, and their French bulldog, Matilda Ruffles.