Meet Katie Blackthorn
After witnessing the shortcomings of the modern mental health system—often impersonal, rushed, and disconnected—I knew there had to be a more holistic way to support healing. I was inspired by the wisdom of village healers and wise women, whose work tended not only to the mind but also to the body, spirit, and community.
In my practice, I walk alongside you on whichever path feels right for you:
The Solar Path — rooted in my work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, offering evidence-based psychotherapy for California residents. Here, we work collaboratively with proven therapeutic approaches to address trauma, navigate life transitions, and foster resilience.
The Lunar Path — a sacred, non-clinical space open to anyone, anywhere, that draws on herbal wisdom, spiritual guidance, ritual, and the intuitive arts to support your wholeness.
I bring over a decade of experience as a mental health provider specializing in trauma, alongside training as an advanced herbalist, tarot reader, and student of curanderismo. My work is informed by both modern psychology and ancestral traditions, offering a bridge between clinical skill and earth-honoring practices.
No matter the path you choose, my intention is the same: to create a space where you are seen, heard, and supported in revivifying your life—not just treating symptoms, but tending to the whole of you: mind, body, and soul.
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Katie became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) after a tarot reading encouraged her to go back to school. Katie graduated with honors from the University of Southern California with her Masters in Social Work in 2014. She also holds a Masters degree in War Studies from the University of Glasgow and a Bachelors in History from UC Santa Barbara.
Katie has over a decade of experience as a mental health provider, including working at various VA locations, where she has developed a nuanced understanding of trauma and its profound impact on individuals and their loved ones. Katie is experienced in a range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities to address trauma and PTSD, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), among others.
Katie also is a certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute.
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Katie is trained as an Advanced Herbalist under Marysia Miernowska of the School of the Sacred Wild. Katie completed her initial herbalism apprenticeship in 2023 and her Advanced Herbalism certification in 2025. This training is based in the Wise Woman tradition of healing and also incorporates knowledge of Western Herbalism, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
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Katie has been enraptured by the study of tarot since experiencing a backyard tarot reading from her witchy aunt’s friend in 2012 and getting her first deck shortly thereafter. Katie has since pursued a deep study into tarot, attending courses taught by Lindsay Mack and numerous books on tarot by Bakara Wintner, Barbara Moore, Alexander Jodorosky, Sallie Nichols, and Rachel Pollack, among others.
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Katie’s own spiritual and healing journey began shortly after moving back to the US from Ireland in 2010. Feeling deeply homesick for the magic of Ireland and the more balanced way of life, Katie asked her witchy aunt for a reading as a last resort before reaching out to a psychiatrist. Since then, Katie has been on a path of voracious learning in a pursuit of a better quality of life for herself and others. This has led to not only her career in mental health but also into her studies of traditional healing and spiritual practices from around the world, including curanderismo, shamanism, pre-Christian Irish practices, and psychedelics as sacred teachers.
Katie is also deeply committed to being the change she wants to see in the world. Katie is committed to living in reciprocity and alignment with the natural world and knows that, “The way we treat the environment is the way we treat ourselves, and the way we treat ourselves is the way we treat the environment.” Therefore, if we heal ourselves, we heal the environment, and if we heal the environment, we heal ourselves. She is also committed to anti-racism, anti-war, and is LGBTQ+.
