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Hi, I'm Katalina Montaigue, psychotherapist, counsellor and walk and talk therapist
I am a romantic, currently engaged in a passionate love story with life itself.
Some days, I love to take tiny bites, stretching out and savouring every last crumb. Other days, I take great big, greedy, gluttonous mouthfuls, savouring the impermanence of everything and anything at all.
Every day, I endeavour to be an active participant, embracing choices with a fully engaged contribution to the dance of life and trusting life to lead where choice is not an option.
I am fascinated by different views of the world and actively fight the inherent belief that my way of thinking is the correct way. I get cranky when hungry and act drunk when tired. My nemesis is the wind, and whilst I love the rain, my feet must be kept dry. I've lost track of the correct terms for my sexuality, but last I checked, polyamorous and pansexual fit relatively well.
I am deeply spiritual, but I rarely speak of it, because every time I try, it comes out sounding reductive. I have embraced life with an intensity that friends have said scares them, and I refuse to change, because life is here to be lived with intent, not by accident.
I was a quiet and observant child, and what I observed was that 'grown-ups' were doing it all wrong. Then I became an adult, and for the same reasons as everyone else, I also, ‘did it all wrong’ for a solid 14 years, dreading work, counting down the minutes to home time, then wasting away my free time with TV and trying to fit myself into pleasures of others that were not pleasures to me.
Strung out and permanently existing on the fence between anxiety and depression; overwhelm and burnout, and regularly, fight flight or freeze. My life was flying past me, as I watched on helplessly, wishing I could just get a little break to recharge and recover.
And then I turned left. I dug my way out of a toxic relationship; I started chasing pleasures of my own and found a man who ticks very few boxes I thought I needed and all the ones I never knew I needed. After a year of safety and stability, I backed myself and became the first member in my family to enter formal education.
By miracle of chance, I landed in a degree taught by some of the most brilliant minds and hearts I've encountered. Tra-Ill Dowie, Sydney Ruiz, David Champion, Tas Manolopoulos, Daniel Rothschilds. For which I am deeply and eternally grateful. As a result, I was guided in how to befriend my own demons and gave my passion for helping those 'grown-ups' who are seeking a different way of doing it, an educated outlet.
I hold a Bachelor of Psychotherapy and Counselling from Ikon Institute of Australia, graduating in 2024, and am a registered member of PACFA. Alongside my therapeutic work, I have worked in aged care since 2013— over a decade of learning about what really matters and the quiet ways people try to hold onto themselves when everything else is falling away.
I am now grateful for every day that I get to help women explore corners of their psyche that they've been otherwise too frightened to explore. Or feel safe to express joy, sadness, and anger. And my joy overflows when I learn that a woman has become closer in her relationships to friends and family, or that those friends and family have benefited from the ripple effect of her valiant mission to live more fully.
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If you’re considering therapy with me, the next step is to book a free introductory call.
This call is a no-pressure way of getting to know each other a little. You can ask questions, get a feel for how I work, and see whether we are a good fit for each other. Therapy is a relationship, and fit matters.