Katharine is an artist, board certified art therapist, licensed clinical professional counselor, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner based in downtown Chicago. She received her Masters in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For the past several years, she has worked with people wanting to explore their inner and outer worlds. Katharine has experience facilitating individual and group art therapy sessions as well as socially engaged community-building experiences using creative writing, “zine” making, comics, puppetry, improvisation, video, fibers, and a variety of visual arts. Katharine is an Associate Professor, Adj. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught an undergraduate course she created, "Comics Narratives: Illness, Disability, & Recovery” in addition to graduate courses including Ethics and Legal Issues in Art Therapy, Fieldwork Supervision, Art Therapy Graduate Projects, and Counseling Techniques. Katharine has given several professional presentations at local and national conferences.