Katherine Tineo-Komatsu

Katherine Tineo-Komatsu (she/her/they) is a licensed clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher. Katherine started in the field of social work over 10 years ago. They’ve worked with adults, older adults, young people, young children, families, and groups. She developed her skill set while working in nonprofits, health care, and educational settings with different populations. Katherine attended Brown University and Columbia University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana Studies and Master of Science degree in Social Work, respectively. She completed a certificate program at The New School in Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy. Katherine also completed a 200-hr certificate program in teaching yoga and social emotional learning.  

Katherine is currently the Intake Coordinator at Family PEACE Trauma Treatment Center working with young children and their families. Through the NCTSN, she participates in the Trauma and Substance Use and Embodied Holistic Healing collaboratives. She is also embarking on a yearlong journey with NCTSN by participating in the Being Anti-Racist Is Central to Trauma-Informed Care Implementation and Transformational Change Community. Katherine is also the sole proprietor of a training and consulting business, where she provides offerings on social-emotional learning, identity development, play and nature-based interventions, substance use disorders, Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed care, and healing-centered practices focused on self-care and embodiment.

Katherine identifies as a Black-Indigenous-Dominican, cis queer woman, two-spirit, radical intuitive healer, housed within an able-body that is educated, middle class with a history of poverty, living with histories of trauma that contribute to her neurodiversity. She sees herself as a steward of Earth who is working towards remembering and rekindling her relationship with plants and herbs, reconnecting to practices of stillness and embodiment, and working with the ancestors, spirits, guides, and Source to continue the traditions of knowing and being in communion with the Universe. Katherine believes we are all stewards of Earth, and through colonization have forgotten this organic, natural relationship. Her intention is to engage in decolonial practices and ways of being to help bring forth her original self—that part that is seeking connection and belongingness to Earth and others. She finds that doing and witnessing this work within a community can offer healing and integration.

In her spare time, Katherine enjoys learning about alternative spiritual philosophies. She enjoys building community connections and learning how to have more compassion, love, and acceptance for others and herself. She finds joy in exploring ways of dismantling systems of oppression that change how we are in relationship with ourselves and each other. She loves to express herself through dance, journaling, art, rituals, yoga, and love. She enjoys learning and sharing with others. 

Katherine was born on the lands of the Taino, Macorix, and Ciguayo peoples, the lands known as Ayiti/Quiskeya and currently known as Haiti/Dominican Republic. Katherine was raised on the lands of the Munsee Lenape, Wappinger, and Schaghticoke peoples, the lands known as Lenapehoking and currently known as New York City. She was born to a family with long and deep histories of trauma that led to a resilient reliance on Afro-indigenous spiritual practices as a way of surviving. She currently lives in NYC with her life partner and their two daughters.