Kate Jordan has presented workshops in infant massage in San Diego area hospitals, to visiting nurses associations, and to parent-infant groups since 1980. She has been presenting "Bodywork for the Childbearing Year®" certification workshops since 1984 to massage and physical therapists, labor and perinatal nurses and nurse-midwives throughout the United States and in Canada and has been offering SpaMassage for Pregnancy® since 2000.

Kate has practiced as a massage therapist since 1972. She was trained in Edgar Cayce massage at the ARE Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, where she worked in the early 1970's, and with Dr. Harold Reilly in Virginia Beach, VA. She apprenticed in Hawaiian lomi-lomi massage with Hawaiian Kahuna Margaret Machado, and completed programs of study at the Namikoshi Shiatsu School, the Arica Institute, and the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. She has had extensive training in osteopathic soft tissue techniques with Dr. Ruth Gotch, D.O., Dr. Raymond Hruby, D.O., Dr. Lawrence Jones, D.O. and the Jones Institute, and the Dr. Loren "Bear" Rex and the Ursa Foundation, and has studied Myofascial Release with John Barnes, RPT. She was a student of Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad from 1979 to 1991, and of the Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1984 to 1987. She trained in the use of visualization and guided imagery for medical conditions with Dr. Carl and Stephanie Simonton, the Academy for Guided Imagery (Dr. David Bresler, Ph.D., and Dr. Marty Rossman, M.D.), and with Dr. Rebecca Martin, Ph.D. (Regenesis). She has been the senior therapist at the La Jolla Clinic of Integrative Medicine in La Jolla California since 1978, where she specializes in working with individuals with complex medical problems, those experiencing acute and chronic pain, and in pregnancy, labor, and post-partum massage. Kate combines postural and movement re-education with imagery oriented neuromuscular therapy. She has presented at state and national professional association conventions. She taught at the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego from 1979 to 1991. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a national accrediting agency for professional body therapists, from 1996-2001. She currently writes the "Women's Therapies in Focus" column for Massage Today.