Biography
Katie grew up in Philadelphia, London, and Los Angeles. She graduated from The University of Southern California with a BA in Communications and also received her MSW from USC. For many years after earning her MSW, she was a licensed clinician focusing on gay and lesbian adolescents. She placed foster children in homes of gay and lesbian couples and monitored their integration into their foster family. She simultaneously maintained a private practice and did supervision while raising her two boys. She was born with a partial hearing loss which forced her to pay attention to the words people use and the different ways people communicate. While this hearing loss could have been perceived as a disability, Katie saw it as an opportunity for growth, strength, and resilience, and it heightened her sensitivity to understanding the uniqueness and strength that lies within us all.
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions "
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Rainer Maria Rilke