About
The CoMethod began with the dream of helping each school realize its potential: through insight and relational skills, every community member can feel seen, supported, and thrive.
Our Story
In 2019, Cait Kamins began building this dream with CoMethod Program Strategist Mara Garcia. While completing a master’s degree in education and business, Cait designed the beginnings of The CoMethod—work that was grounded in the relational dynamics that define communities. Over time, that work expanded to include a small, trusted circle of practitioners who center complexity and humanity.
Each member of the CoMethod team brings their own professional pursuits and joins the work when it aligns—consulting with schools, facilitating events, and leading groups that support culture and connection. Our years working within institutions have grounded us in their strengths, constraints, and the relational dynamics that shape them.
As social and political contexts have shifted, the importance of connection has come into sharper focus. Community requires deep care and intention—especially as it is asked to hold more. We feel honored to work alongside schools and organizations in this moment, helping to create spaces where people can learn, grow, and strengthen their relationships with one another.
Each member of our team is a social-emotional educator with K-12 experience and true dedication to strengthening communities. We have spent the majority of our careers within schools and are passionate about expanding our impact. As teachers, administrators, and parents, we know the power of intentional human work. We all deserve to move authentically through our lives.
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Cait Kamins is an educator and administrator with seventeen years of experience across three independent schools and in collaboration with dozens more. She brings expertise in leadership development, social-emotional learning, and faculty culture, bridging pedagogical knowledge and organizational insight.
She is a Town and Gown Scholar and two-time directed researcher at the University of Southern California, a participant in Columbia University’s Klingenstein program, and holds a master’s from University of Pennsylvania in education and business. In 2026, Cait will complete a certificate of Leadership Excellence in Leading Teams through Harvard’s Professional and Executive Development program.
Cait has presented at the annual conferences of the International School Counselor Association (ISCA) and the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and served on an accreditation team with the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS). She co-created and facilitates Full Circle, a professional development group for independent schools in Los Angeles, and served briefly on the board of an elementary school in East Los Angeles. Cait holds certifications in Trauma-Informed School Leadership and Clinical Trauma, and is an Official Certified Wellness Coach of California. She partners regularly with a team of neuropsychologists to integrate research-based strategies into pedagogy and professional learning.
Prior to founding The CoMethod, Cait served as Director of Human Development and Advisory at an independent school in California, where she designed two UC-approved courses, led the creation of a comprehensive advisory program, developed school-wide curricula, guided faculty growth, and taught social-emotional learning courses at both standard and honors levels. Her path toward cultivating emotionally intelligent school communities began during her years as an English teacher, as well as through volunteer work with child survivors of trafficking.
A Bay Area native, Cait now lives with her husband and children in Los Angeles.
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Mara Pavich Garcia is the Director of Community Engagement and Wellness at The Lili‘uokalani Trust in Hawai'i. She previously served at K-12 Director of Wellness and Professional Programs at St. Andrew's Schools.
Over the past 18 years, she has worked in independent schools as a school counselor, program director, learning specialist, and culture leader.
She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands and a master’s in community counseling from Gonzaga University.
She has helped develop Nalukai Academy, an entrepreneurial institute for adolescents, as well as helping to lead The Shanti Alliance and working with the Domestic Violence Action Center. She was recently awarded membership to the Patsy T. Mink Leadership Alliance and served as a faculty member for SDLC through NAIS.
She lives on O’ahu and is deeply involved in her community.
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Sarah Huss teaches Human Development courses and leads parent talks to students and families at several Los Angeles area schools and provides consultation to schools developing their own human development programs.
She has been a faculty member at Campbell Hall School in Studio City for 24 years, serving as the Director of Parent Education and Human Development and the Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice. Among the many courses she has developed and taught are K-12 human sexuality, drug education, peer mentoring, healthy relationships and consent, and responding to microaggressions and bias. In addition to Human Development, Sarah directs a robust Parent Education program that links school communities to innovative thinkers and steadfast veterans in the fields of parenting, mental health, social justice and spiritual development.
She was the co-creator of the Sexuality Education Symposium as part of the National Association of Independent Schools’ Annual Conference in 2017. She also developed the Sexuality Education Summit for California independent school teachers with the California Teacher Development Collaborative. She is an experienced facilitator of Council Circles with both students and adults.
Sarah received her Bachelor of Science at Northwestern University in Education and Social Policy. She earned her Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her 18-year-old son.
Find Sarah at www.sarahhussconsulting.com.
Experiences with The CoMethod