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Katie works with teenagers and adults to strengthen executive function skills at home, at work, and at school. She works with adult clients facing ADHD-related challenges in a range of professional contexts, from health care workers and administrators with complex, high-stakes work loads to creatives and entrepreneurs seeking support with self-management. She has helped her teenage and young adult clients with ADHD find their stride at some of the most rigorous high schools and universities in the country, including Phillips Andover Academy, The Windsor School, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Harvard University, and Stanford University.
Katie completed training in evidence-based approaches to executive function skill building at the Windward Teacher Training Institute, Landmark School Summer Institute, and Cognitive Connections 360 Thinking. Her coaching practice has received clinical supervision from Sue Hallowell, LICSW, Clinical Director of Hallowell Center NYC, and Jen Zobel-Bieber, CPC. She draws on her 200-hour yoga certification with clinical psychologist Bo Forbes to provide her clients with mindfulness tools for emotional regulation.
Before launching her own coaching practice, Katie worked with high school students with ADHD and other learning differences, both privately and in schools. As a classroom teacher and tutor at the Princeton Review, Katie taught SAT / ACT prep for summer programs including MS2 at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Summerfuel at Tufts University and was named the 2012 Rookie of the Year. Katie went on to serve as the academic support coordinator at the Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay, designing and implementing support plans for students with learning differences including ADHD, dyslexia, non-verbal learning disability, executive function deficits, and anxiety and depression. Katie is a licensed educator in the state of Massachusetts (preliminary license # 487313) and passed the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure in Communications and Literacy Skills: Reading and Writing; Foundations of Reading; and Political Science and Philosophy.
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Katie graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and completed a fellowship at Harvard University's EJ Safra Center for Ethics in 2015.