With a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto and over 15 years of experience supporting women through trauma, crisis, and mental health challenges, I bring clinical depth and genuine care to everything I create. My training spans complex trauma, cognitive behavioural therapy, crisis counselling, and psychotherapy — including advanced training from leading trauma therapists across Canada and Harvard University.

For 20 years, writing was my most honest relationship — and my most private one. As a secret journaler who struggled with imposter syndrome, I never dared share a word. Now I have a blog and a poetry book (yours free when you join my newsletter) — and I built an entire community around the belief that your words deserve to be witnessed.

For most of my life I was a repressed artist — convinced I wasn't creative, and my own harshest critic when it came to anything I made. What changed everything was giving myself permission to express rather than suppress. Now, whether I'm dancing, painting, writing a poem, or piecing together a collage, expressive art is how I process, connect, and find meaning — and an non-negotiable part of how I manage my own mental health. Turns out, I was never uncreative. I was just bottling it all in.

From selling jewellery (instead of going right into uni), to founding my own private psychotherapy practice for 6 years, to nowbuilding ContemplatingKatie — I've always been someone who’s created my own path. My latest creation is a postcard mail club that blends my writing, my art, and my love of making people feel seen (more Info coming soon).