High Standards. Hidden Stress.
Support for those who perform, lead, create, and strive.
Does this feel familiar?
You’re navigating heavy responsibilities, team dynamics, and leadership roles that leave you feeling drained.
The pressure to improve, succeed, and prove yourself to others feels constant.
Rest and slowing down feels uncomfortable to you even when feeling burnt out.
You’ve had achievements but are unsatisfied, and already moving on to what’s next.
There’s little time to process emotions and you tell yourself to ‘push through’.
You’re struggling with motivation, mental focus, and meeting your performance goals.
Your confidence feels shaky, and you’re struggling with performance anxiety and external pressure.
Injury, plateau, or transition has left you questioning your identity, worth, or direction.
Life seems good on the outside but on the inside you’re struggling.
There is no one way to be a “high performer.” Some of the people Kate supports include:
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The Athlete in Transition
A competitive athlete struggling with, performance anxiety, staying focused under pressure, and navigating team and coaching dynamics.
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The Entrepreneur or Business Leader
Highly capable, self-motivated, and outwardly successful, but struggling with burnout, self-doubt, and the pressure to always lead.
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The Creative or Performer
A musician, dancer, or artist wrestling with imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or how to harness their creativity without getting lost in the process.
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The Quiet Overachiever
The one everyone relies on. Organized, ambitious, and steady, but carrying inner tension, emotional numbness, or a fear of slowing down and being alone with their thoughts.
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The Overwhelmed Student
Driven and high-achieving, but questioning identity, purpose, or how to juggle school pressure with all other responsibiities.
Kate’s Approach
Kate provides a grounded and integrated approach to working with high-functioning individuals. She supports athletes, professionals, creatives, and leaders navigating identity, burnout, and the emotional toll of holding it all together. She meets individuals where they are at, offering encouragement, reflection, and gentle challenge. Her approach is rooted in understanding the human side of high achievement: how it shapes self-worth, impacts relationships, and affects the nervous system. Kate offers a space where people don’t have to perform; it is a place where insight, honesty, and emotion can be talked about and explored.
Performance Background
Kate brings a decade of lived experience as a competitive ballet dancer, with training rooted in discipline, precision, performance, and competitive evaluation. She understands the challenges that accompany high-performance environments and has personally had to navigate high-performance pressure, burnout, expectations, and team dynamics. Kate has also experienced sports-related injuries and the impact they have on mental health. Although a knee injury has impacted Kate’s ability to continue dancing, this event also deepened her understanding of the body’s physical limits, building resilience, and the complex emotions that identity shifts bring on.
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Regulate & Reconnect
Kate incorporates nervous system regulation tools to help improve clarity, grounding, and emotional resilience
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Direct & Thoughtful
Kate takes an active approach, leading with honesty. She asks meaningful questions and provides honest reflections to help individuals lead with intention and values.
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Strengths-Based & Encouraging
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Kate’s Background
Kate has a decade of lived experience as a competitive ballet dancer, with training rooted in discipline, precision, high-performance, and competitive evaluation. She understands the mental, emotional, and physical demands of sport and the navigation required to reduce risk of injury, stress, and fatigue. Her dance experience informs her strengths-based and collaborative approach to therapy, where she provides a safe and supportive space for athletes to process sports-related concerns and to develop the skills needed for optimal peak performance and emotional well-being
Kate provides mental health counselling to adult and youth in private practice and university settings. Her area of focus includes working with athletes, performers, and high-performance professionals who struggle with performance anxiety, emotional dysregulation, high-stake situational stress, burnout, perfectionism, and low self-esteem. She works closely with student varsity athletes and addresses their unique concerns including performance plateaus, team/coach conflicts, sports-related injuries, and the conflicting demands of academics, sports, and personal life.
Kate brings additional experience as a Registered Yoga Teacher (200-RYT) and workshop facilitator. Her experience includes leading movement-based workshops and providing psychoeducational trainings. She uses her movement-based training and understanding of the mind-body connection to integrate cognitive and somatic tools that support mental focus, emotional resilience, mindfulness, and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
February 15
Venue
New York, NY
March 15
Venue
New York, NY