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 with 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 care, long before life became so individualised.
Folk n Fable and I were born from these threads.
professionally
I’m a registered Art Therapist and Kinesiologist, and the founder of Folk n Fable, an established creative therapy practice providing individual and group therapeutic services since 2011.
I have extensive experience working across private practice, community health, and youth mental health settings. For over five years, I partnered with organisations including Eastern Access Community Health (EACH), headspace, and Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS), facilitating group art therapy programs for both adults and young people. These programs supported participants in developing emotional regulation and self-expression skills, improving mental well-being in structured, therapeutic group environments.
Since 2017, I have been a registered NDIS provider for therapeutic support, assisting individuals with psychosocial, neurological, and developmental needs. I focus on emotional regulation, identity development, communication skills, and community participation through creative therapeutic processes, with demonstrated capacity to support individuals with complex presentations, including those requiring coordinated, multidisciplinary care.
My approach is trauma-informed, relationship-based, and focused on building capacity. It is grounded in contemporary understandings of neuroscience, attachment theory, and nervous system regulation, and is guided by a companioning method developed by the MIECAT Institute. This means I work collaboratively with curiosity, creativity, and respect; your story and pace guide the process.
My work brings together creative, somatic, and energy psychology approaches to support emotional regulation and reconnect you with the body’s deeper knowing. Drawing on a metaphysical perspective, I explore the connection between emotional experience, trauma, and belief patterns, and how these are held and expressed within the body. Through the creative process, reflective dialogue, and body-based work, I work alongside you in ways that build on your strengths and support insight, resilience, and meaningful change.
Alongside private practice, Folk n Fable also provides tailored art therapy and wellbeing workshops for community and government organisations, bringing creative and relational therapeutic approaches into community settings.
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