Hi, I’m Katie!

It's lovely to meet you.

I'm a Libra sun, Aquarius rising, and my moon is in Leo. I'm a Projector in Human Design, and while I love human beings with all of my heart, I need a lot of alone time to feel connected to myself. I am a dance machine, a star gazer, a writer, and a biker. I love Sundays, the smell of garlic and butter in a pan, and my dahlia garden. I am a yogi, a bookworm, and a tantric feminist. I am a vinyl nerd and I live for sunset walks, the wisdom of the woods, and live music.

I live in the mountains west of Denver, where my house backs up to a massive gulch that is home to fox families, mule deer, and mama bears and their cubs. In the spring, great blue herons return to the creek and mountain lions prowl at night. We humans adapt to their presence instead of forcing nature to adjust to us.

The longer I live here, the deeper my relationship with this land grows. I walk the same paths every day and drive the same roads, and I’ve come to know this canyon intimately: its rhythms, its expressions, the way the animals and plants move and shift with the seasons. I am in awe every single day that I live here. This is my home, and I am living my most fertile life.

But it wasn’t always this way.

  I think we all have cataclysmic moments in our lives -- the eruptive rebirths that define our existence in Before and After. For me, this happened in my early 30s. From the outside looking in, I had it made. I was traveling the world, I had a tight-knit and vibrant community around me, and my life was decorated with concerts, decadent meals, and mountain adventures. I ran a bustling acupuncture clinic helping women balance their bodies and get pregnant, and was highly regarded by my mentors and colleagues. 

But under the surface, I was deeply unwell. Living in South East Asia had left my body riddled with parasites, and my refusal to rest was running me into the ground. My marriage was crumbling under the weight of non-existent communication skills and a brutal immigration process. I was pretending to be financially stable while racking up thousands in debt, and despite years of therapy and yoga, I was barely scratching the surface of my childhood trauma and all of the ways it was ruling my life.

  My divorce was a breaking point and a sacred invitation to dive deep, and I began to confront the deep-seated codependency patterns and dysfunction that had followed me for years. Intensive cycles of embodiment coaching, relational healing, plant medicines, and 5 Element Acupuncture brought me home to myself and revolutionized the work I  offer the world. 

My greatest gift is my intuitive ability to see other people at their soul level—who YOU are without your insecurities, your judgements, your regrets, and your limitations. With this vision, and by joining forces with your guides, I am able to channel what your life is yearning to give you—the health, the relationships, the wonder, the purpose and career, and the expansion that you DESERVE. I am able to witness where your energy is blocked or deficient, and how these limitations are preventing you from attaining the highest, most fulfilling version of who you are meant to be in this world.

I want to:

restore Help you restore your connection to the Earth, and from this connection, guide you to understand what your soul needs to thrive.

encourage Hold you through the places that feel frightening and exhausting, and encourage you to own your bravery and courage.

mystify Be your midwife of truth and magic.

activate Help you activate your Womb Wisdom, your most authentic Feminine Essence, your fierce Mother Archetype.

I am here when you’re ready, friend.

Lineage

I received my undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies and English from the University of Colorado and went on to attain my Master’s of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 2017, I felt a higher calling to learn the lineage of Classical 5 Element Acupuncture and became a student of renowned practitioners Neil Gumenick and Mary McCullough at the Institute for Classical 5 Element Acupuncture in Santa Monica, California.

After living in Southeast Asia, I eagerly broadened my theory base of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and energetic healing. I have studied with the likes of Kiiko Mastumoto, Mikio Sankey, the late Dr. Richard Teh-Fu Tan, Dr. Randine Lewis, and Dr. Jill Blakeway. I have worked at Denver Fertility clinics as an ART acupuncturist, and have served as a labor and delivery doula.

In addition to my work as an acupuncturist and herbalist, I accept one-on-one coaching clients, lead retreats, and teach courses centering on enhancing emotional intelligence and divine femine sovereignty. I am passionate about educating and empowering women about the intersectionality of feminism, spirituality, and our rights as physical beings. I am active in the LGBTQ community, and I am a fierce supporter of legislation that advocates against the over-medicalization of female bodies.

I am a devotee and student of Kundalini yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, and I possess a passion for the healing powers of nature and shamanic plant medicines. I live in the woods in Evergreen, Colorado with my dog Piper. When I’m not flowing in my medicine, I love cooking, writing, wandering around the world, seeing live music, and being outside as often as possible.