Hi, I’m Kat

I’ve reinvented my professional and personal life multiple times—shifting from a corporate career in online project management to a hands-on creative practice in ceramics, moving across the world to build a new life from scratch, and, most recently, navigating the end of a decades-long relationship while deepening my work in emotional wellness.

Through all of these changes, I’ve learned that grief and uncertainty don’t have easy fixes. But I’ve also found that when we create intentional space for them, other possibilities start to emerge. Change can be disorienting, but it can also open doors we never expected.

My goal isn’t to hand you answers but to help you navigate your own process with more clarity, self-trust, and a sense of grounding.

I am grateful to live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Education & Training

ICF Certified Life Coach – Rhodes Wellness College (2023), currently working towards my ACC accreditation.

  • Trauma & Healing Training: Conscious Life / Alex Howard: Trauma Super Conference (2023 & 2024).

  • Polyvagal & Nervous System Training: Mastin Kipp – Claim Your Power (2021).

  • Boundaries & Relational Work: Mark Groves / Create the Love, diverse courses (2020-2023).

  • Currently enrolled: NICABM – Strategies to Help Clients Navigate Rupture and Build Skills of Repair (2024) and NICABM – How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle) (2025).

My Approach to Coaching

Coaching, for me, is about creating space—for reflection, for new perspectives, and for what comes next. Whether through conversation, movement, or working with clay, I offer a process that is grounded, creative, and responsive to where you are at.

Online or Walk & Talk

In regular coaching, our sessions are a space to explore life’s transitions, challenges, and patterns through deep listening, thoughtful questions, journaling prompts, and somatic awareness. I help you gain clarity, build self-trust, and navigate change in a way that feels aligned for you.

These sessions can take place online or in person as a Walk &Talk session in one of Vancouver’s beautiful parks, forests, mountains, beaches, or on the seawall. Nature and movement naturally help regulate the nervous system. The smell of the forest, the song of a bird, or the sight of a seal popping its head up can help ideas and emotions flow more freely.

Art Coaching

In art coaching, we take that same process into the physical, using clay as a tool for self-exploration, emotional processing, and embodied awareness. For over a decade, ceramics has been my way of exploring emotions, processing change, and getting out of my head. Working with clay is tactile, immediate, and revealing. It bypasses overthinking and brings you straight into the present moment. I believe that self-discovery doesn’t always happen through words. Sometimes, it happens through our body.

Both “talk” and art coaching offer a way to slow down, connect with yourself, and engage with what’s alive for you in a more intentional, creative way.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Life & career transitions

  • Grief, loss & rebuilding from scratch

  • Emotional wellness & self-exploration

  • Somatic healing & nervous system regulation

  • Entrepreneurship & creative business

  • Building and navigating non-traditional relationships

  • Safe, healthy, and secure relating & non-violent communication

LGBTQIA+ friendly, trauma-informed, and knowledgeable in non-monogamy and polyamory.

I am grateful to live, work, and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.