about
I’m Katie, representing the Fire element with an Earth undertone.
That combination allows me to bring warmth, energy, and encouragement while holding a deeply grounded and nurturing space. Fire sparks curiosity and movement, while Earth provides steadiness, containment, and care.
Long before I had language for therapy, I had an instinct for tending, for creative inquiry and for alchemy. At six years old, I meticulously filled tiny bags with metallic confetti, faux pearls, and diamantes for three friends. They were so dear to me that it felt necessary to gift them little pocketfuls of treasure for creative exploration and lovingly encourage them by way of glitter.
If we go a little further back to the 1800s, you’ll find my great-great-grandmother, Lup Mun, a young Buddhist nun in China who later became a respected herbalist and business owner on Celestial Avenue in Melbourne’s early Chinatown. Described as jolly and sensible, she was a mother figure to many. Her work sat at the intersection of healing and community care, and today she is honoured at the Chinese Museum for her contributions.
I often feel the threads weaving through these stories, the generational strands that shape us, consciously and unconsciously. A pull toward nurturing, meaning-making, and creating spaces where people can return to wholeness. Healing, before it became clinical. Care, before it became procedural. Community as a web of mutual support, long before life became so individualised.
Folk n Fable and I were born from these threads.
professionally
I’m a Registered Art Therapist (AThR), Registered Clinical Counsellor and Kinesiologist, and the founder of Folk n Fable, an integrative therapy practice established in 2011. With over 15 years of therapeutic experience, my work spans private practice, community health, and youth mental health, including partnerships with EACH, headspace, and YSAS, as well as facilitating therapeutic art programs for adults and young people.
Since 2017, I have also been a registered NDIS provider of therapeutic supports, working with people with psychosocial, neurological and developmental disabilities, including those with complex support needs who benefit from a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach.
My approach is trauma-informed, relationship-based and neuro-affirming, grounded in contemporary understandings of attachment, neuroscience and nervous system regulation. Guided by the MIECAT Institute’s companioning approach, I work collaboratively with curiosity, creativity and respect, allowing your lived experience and pace to guide the process.
Bringing together Art Therapy, Counselling, Kinesiology and EFT, my work weaves creative, somatic and energy psychology approaches to explore the relationship between emotional experience, the body, and the stories, beliefs and patterns that shape our lives. Through creative process, reflective dialogue and body-based inquiry, I support self-understanding, meaning-making, belief transformation and personal evolution.
Alongside individual therapy, Folk n Fable offers group Art Therapy and tailored wellbeing workshops for community and government organisations.
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