Meet Katie Blackthorn

After witnessing the shortcomings of the current mental health system—one that often feels impersonal, rushed, and disconnected—Katie knew there had to be a better way. Inspired by the wisdom of the village healers and wise women of old, Katie is committed to offering consultation and healing services that are personal, intuitive, and deeply human. She believes in creating a space where you are seen and heard, where healing is not just about fixing symptoms but nurturing the whole person, mind, body, and soul.

Sessions with Katie are consultations with a trauma therapist, herbalist, tarot reader, nature-based spiritual practitioner, forever student, and explorer of consciousness.

Katie has had over a decade of experience as a mental health provider specializing in treating trauma. In pursuit of her own healing and spiritual journey and endless passion for learning, Katie is also trained as an advanced herbalist, tarot reader, and is currently a student of curanderismo. She incorporates the wisdom of these ancient spiritual practices and traditional herbal medicine into her practice, offering guidance on natural plant-based remedies, spiritual practices, and psychological understanding to support mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.

Katie is dedicated to helping people who have been through some shit revivify their lives.

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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.

  • 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 will complete her Advanced Herbalism certification in 2025. This training is based in the Wise Woman tradition of healing and also incorporates study of Western Herbalism, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

  • 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 developed a deep study into tarot, consisting of attending taught classes by Lindsay Mack as well as a close study of many books on tarot by Bakara Wintner, Barbara Moore, Alexander Jodorosky, Sallie Nichols, and Rachel Pollack, among others.

  • 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. She is also committed to anti-racism, anti-war, and is LGBTQ+.

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