Katharine is an artist, board certified art therapist, and licensed clinical professional counselor 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 facing life transitions ranging from the impacts of personal, cultural and collective trauma, Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, grief and loss, to sense of purpose. 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. She is currently working toward certification in Somatic Experiencing, an approach that addresses trauma stored in the body (SEP certificate completion expected in November 2024). Katharine has given several professional presentations at local and national conferences.