Holistic psychotherapy for women navigating anxiety, life transitions, and the ongoing work of coming home to themselves.
Something brought you here — a struggle that won't quiet, a loss that needs witnessing, or something less nameable: a restlessness, a longing, a sense that there's more available to you than you're currently living.
Whatever the entry point, the invitation is the same: to get genuinely curious about your own life.
“Kat is a keeper of memory.”
The work here is relational, insight-oriented and unhurried. I bring warmth, rigor, and a deep belief that your symptoms are not the problem — they're the beginning of a conversation.
We'll work with what you bring — and beneath it, with the body, the patterns, the parts of you that have been waiting to be heard.
We'll use what's useful: attachment theory, parts work, somatic awareness, psychodynamic exploration, and the occasional oracle card if that's the kind of thing that opens something in you.
I'm active in session — not a blank screen, not a nodding mirror. Our time together is usually quite conversational. I believe it's from the strength and safety of our relationship — our attachment — that healing actually emerges.
I work with both the story you bring and what lives beneath it — in the body, the imagery, the patterns that repeat across your relationships and your life. I offer equal parts psychoeducation, clinical insight and intuitive hunches. I speak in metaphor and real talk. I laugh heartily and might get teary.
More About KatThis practice is a messy, beautiful path toward union — of body and mind, of awareness and attention, of the knowable and the unknowable. It’s a science, but it’s also an art, with a little mysticism and the wisdom of the dharma sprinkled in.
What might look like an eclectic range of trainings — counseling psychology, herbalism, birth work, meditation, somatic practice — is actually a single, coherent way of seeing: that in this work, we are always guiding the birth of something new, with both stillness and movement, curiosity and reverence.
The goal isn’t to fix you. It’s to help you reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows the way.
The most important insights often arrive sideways. Let's begin.
Schedule a Free ConsultationMost people have to choose a lane. The CIIS-trained clinician or the herbalist who makes fire cider. The parts-work therapist or the woman who pulls cards in session. I don’t choose. That integration — holding both the clinical and the mystical — is the work. And it’s what makes this practice feel different from the inside.
I trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where the psychological and the spiritual are not kept in separate rooms. That education shaped not just how I practice but how I live — and it’s why I’ve spent years gathering knowledge that most clinicians keep at arm’s length: herbalism, somatic practice, birth work, Buddhism, yoga. Not as add-ons, but as lenses.
Everything that feeds my work — the herbalism, the circles, the seasonal cooking, the poetry, the retreats — orbits the same sun. The seasons, the plants, the body, the kitchen: these aren’t lifestyle choices. They’re the ways we find our way back to ourselves.
“When everything feels murky and unfamiliar, Kat’s presence and expertise help to ground me in clarity.”
This is a practice for women who are ready to be met there — in the full, complicated, beautifully inconvenient truth of who they are.
I’ve made San Francisco my home since 2006 and have been practicing here since 2012, putting down deep roots in this city — including a particular love for supporting the local homebirth community. In that time I’ve sat with hundreds of women through anxiety and grief, new motherhood and identity shifts, the slow burn of burnout and the sharper pain of loss. Now, much of my work focuses on the intersection of Midlife and Motherhood.
Professionally, I’ve led workshops and retreats in California and internationally, been featured in both startup and renowned publications, and a guest on several podcasts. I love opportunities to teach and share what I love beyond the therapy room.
At home, I share my life with my husband, our elementary-aged son, a rescue dog and two cats who regularly make an appearance in virtual sessions. I make herbal infusions daily, camp whenever I can, and burn through a lot of audiobooks on urban hikes.
This is the work I was made for. I’d be honored to share it with you.
Concentration in Integral Counseling Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies · San Francisco, CA
Western Washington University · Bellingham, WA
IFS Institute
Components of Care & Advanced Perinatal OCD
Postpartum Support International · Sacramento, CA
Feeling Good Institute · Mountain View, CA
Novato Youth Center & Marina Counseling Center
Scarlet Sage School of Traditional Healing Arts · SF, CA
Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center · Woodacre, CA
The Simkin Center for Allied Birth Professions
Bastyr University · Seattle, WA & San Diego, CA
Laughing Lotus Yoga Center · New York, NY & San Francisco, CA
The first step is a free 20-minute consultation — a chance to talk, ask questions, and get a sense of whether working together feels right. There's no pressure and no commitment.
I'm currently accepting new clients in-person at The Root in Noe Valley, and virtually throughout California.
Book a Free ConsultMost people come because something feels off and they want to understand it better.
The kind that lives in the body as much as the mind — chronic, effortful, exhausting.
Becoming, unbecoming, and the disorienting space in between.
Support for the full complexity of the perinatal experience, including when it looks nothing like you expected.
All kinds — death, but also the losses that don't have funerals: identities, relationships, versions of yourself.
Reconnecting with embodiment, intuition and the quieter signals you've learned to override.
Consultation for therapists and healing practitioners building or deepening their private practices.
Weekly, ongoing sessions. Out-of-network — I can provide a superbill for insurance reimbursement. Financial concerns? Reach out — I can connect you with associates or sliding scale options in the Bay Area.
For therapists and healing professionals ready to grow their practice, find their voice, or go deeper with holistic approaches. You’ll leave with a clear next step.
Not sure if we’re a fit? Let’s talk. No pressure, no commitment. In-person in Noe Valley or virtually throughout California.
“Kat has been a soft landing for me in turbulent times.”
Send a message and I'll be in touch within 48 hours. All inquiries are confidential.
In-person · The Root, Noe Valley, San Francisco
Virtual · Throughout California