With a Master of Arts in Clinical Art Therapy, certifications in Mindfulness, and continuing education credits in Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFS) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Katherine brings robust clinical expertise combined with lived experience as an artist. She has always been creative and made art, from doodling in high school notebooks to getting a degree in Graphic Arts. After spending years as a graphic artist creating to order, Art Therapy allowed her to bring together her interest in psychology, her personal explorations of what it means to be human, trying to create and enjoy a happy life, and her inner knowing about the healing power of the creative process. For the last fifteen years in inpatient behavioral health, she has spent her days using art and creativity to help people express emotions, organize thoughts and feelings, cope with anxiety and depression, process trauma and grief, and experience the cathartic relaxation of creativity on the level of play.

Outside the therapy room, Katherine makes art every day in some small way. She is a voracious reader of British murder mysteries and loves cats. She shares her morning meditation and journaling time with her cat, which is also time to watch the birds outside the window together. Born in the Caribbean (Jamaica), she loves the sunshine and loves to travel.

• Artist and Art Therapist
  As an artist and art therapist, Katherine has experienced the fulfillment and healing that comes from creativity and self-expression. She feels truly blessed every day she gets to share and foster the excitement, wonder, and wholeness embodied in the experience of making art, along with being a guide on the collaborative journey of inquiry and growth that is the gift of therapy.

• Humanistic and Existential Foundation
  Katherine brings a humanistic and existential approach based on an ontological understanding of what it means to be human. She believes we all have within us the capacity to grow and rise above adversity. Understanding how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors work together to shape our well-being allows us, with sufficient support, to create a more positive mindset focused on identifying strengths, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency.

• Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Integration
  With certifications in Mindfulness and training in Compassion-Focused Therapy, Katherine helps clients develop mindful, nonjudgmental awareness while offering supportive self-compassion. Acknowledging and naming negative emotions and thoughts does not give them more power; it gives us the power to understand them more. Her approach helps clients manage stress, increase self-compassion, and develop resourceful solutions for everyday living that reduce their sense of isolation and helplessness and transform their sense of personal empowerment.