MMH (Art Therapy), Grad Dip Ed, BArts, AThR

Katherine’s portfolio career combines her long-term HR management experience with her academic and art therapy practice. She currently works as a strategic HR manager, in private art therapy practice and as a university tutor. In the University of Queensland’s Master of Mental Health Art Therapy program, Katherine supervises second year students in their independent research.

Katherine’s primary interest is in supporting clients, individually or in groups, to promote psychological wellbeing. Her experience includes working with young refugees and asylum seekers and developmentally complex adolescents. In her art therapy practice she adopts trauma-informed and mindfulness-based approaches with women and children coping with anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief and life transitions. Katherine also supports work groups to build resilience, psychological safety and well-being.