Nice to e-meet you! I’m Katie - I’m in my late 20’s, and am a life coach with experience/qualifications in life coaching, counselling, meditation and communications. 

I am warm, passionate, bubbly, tenacious and understanding, and I love to insert humour, fun and joy into all areas of my life. I am a big extrovert, and I thrive off having positive and meaningful connections in my everyday life - whether that be with friends, family or strangers. 

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I’m single, sober, plant based (90%!), adore my close friends and family, going for adventures in nature, and love reading, yoga and Harry Potter.

A bit about my relationship with love, and myself

Let me first start off with saying - two things can be true and conflicting. 

Firstly, I love being single. I love being completely independent, and I thrive a lot in my singledom. On the other hand, I also can get lonely, sad, and bored in my single life. Throughout the years I have previously heavily relied upon external validation from (mainly) men to build up my self esteem. I have relied upon partners to come with me to do to fun things that I wanted to do that I was too scared to do alone. I have previously heavily (and solely) relied on partners for support in difficult situations. 

What has been so freeing the past few years, is slowly giving myself the internal validation that I used to rely on from partners/flings/men. Is going on hikes, adventures, and doing the things I want to do, alone (or sometimes with friends/family!). Is learning how to give myself that support that I so deeply crave from an intimate partner. 

I’m not here to preach to you about how there are no downsides of being single - there definitely can be at times. But for me, none of the downsides of being single even come close to what it feels like to feel deep loneliness and aloneness when in a relationship. It’s heartbreaking to be in a relationship where you don’t feel seen, heard, understood or appreciated. To be in a relationship and know deep down that this person is wrong for you, but not being able to leave because you don’t want to be single. 

I came to the realisation that I never wanted to be in a relationship that I knew was wrong for me because I couldn’t give myself the love, care and support to feel whole. Which is why I put in effort every day to build a life that I love, so that I don’t feel the desperate pull to settle for someone just so that I feel “worthy”. I am able to give myself that validation now. I put in the effort to love myself, to work in a field that I love, to pursue aligned hobbies and interests, and to partake in frequent self care because I deserve nothing less. 

I love myself and know my worth - and I am passionate about helping other women feel the same.

A bit about my journey into life coaching

I have always believed in undertaking a career that I love. I started out in communications, and I chose this career as it combined my love of building relationships and my passion for writing. While working in the communications field in my mid 20s, I suffered from a fair share of health issues, such as chronic fatigue, severe sudden acne, hair loss, constant headaches/nausea, situational depression, anxiety, and very high levels of stress. While this was obviously not ideal, I am so grateful I experienced these ailments, as it led me to build up an incredible passion for mental health awareness, self development and physical health.

I gave up alcohol, went vegan (and then vegetarian), learnt about eating an anti-inflammatory diet, stopped drinking caffeine, starting prioritising exercise, started journaling everyday, started undertaking more meditation, and learning about manifestation. This then led me to realise I wanted to pursue a career that was more heart centred, focused on the wellbeing of others, and authentic to me. This led to my return to postgraduate study in life coaching, and in counselling. 

I made a lot of big changes in my life in a fairly short amount of time, and they 100% altered me as a person (for the better!). What I learnt is that while making these changes is hard, committing to those changes and choices everyday afterwards is even harder. I won’t lie - I probably could have used a life coach at that point in time! 

However, the end result is that I am now living a life that is aligned to who I authentically am as a person; I truly believe that I am meant to be in the life coaching and mental health field. I truly want to support people, and it brings me so much joy and happiness when the work I do has a positive effect.