Katie Ferrell is the founder of Exploring Divergence, a virtual therapy and consulting practice helping neurodivergent adults understand themselves, build sustainable strategies, and create lives that work with their brains. An AuDHD Licensed Mental Health Counselor, consultant, and person with NVLD, Katie specializes in the intersection of neurodivergence, executive functioning, behavioral medicine, and trauma-informed care. She brings both deep clinical expertise and lived experience to her work.
She partners with a wide range of clients through therapy, coaching, education, and workplace consulting, including professionals, software engineers, gamers, and entrepreneurs, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ and polyamorous communities and visa holders, green card holders, and immigrants navigating U.S. systems. Her clients are navigating ADHD, autism, anxiety, burnout, dual diagnosis, and major life transitions. Her approach is neurodivergent-affirming, strengths-based, and built around helping people move beyond simply coping to creating meaningful, lasting change.
Katie holds a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine and a Bachelor’s in Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, and Creative Expression from the University of Redlands in California. She draws on a clinical background spanning addiction treatment, behavioral medicine, private and group practices, and mindfulness-based care, including work in VA substance use, mobile crisis, and methadone clinic settings in Boston. Since opening her private practice in 2018, she has grown Exploring Divergence into a group practice based in Vermont, serving therapy clients across Vermont and Washington, and consulting and speaking clients nationwide.
My focus and passion for fostering wellbeing, mindfulness, and compassion are not only based on my professional education but are also rooted in my own lived experience.
“We are more than the parts that form us.”
My decision to pursue a life path in counseling and wellness was inspired by a mentor who helped me work through my own limiting thoughts and cycles.
It was during my education my teachers and friends taught me that a fulfilling life involves community, creativity, and growth. It was with their support that I developed my own mindfulness practice which allowed me to grow into who I am today.
Throughout my journey I learned that personal growth is professional growth, and who I am as a person matters as much as what I know as a therapist.
Wellness Education & Mindfulness
It’s through these deep explorations and experiences that I was able to strengthen my commitment to fostering growth and connection in my own life and the lives of others.
Clinical Education & Internships
It’s through these deep explorations and experiences that I was able to strengthen my commitment to fostering growth and connection in my own life and the lives of others.
“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.”
I believe that we are more than what we do and more than our job titles. I am grateful for the mentors, friends, family and clients that I have had the privilege to know throughout my life.
My decision to move to Seattle and later Vermont was made for my self-care and wellbeing. Balance, joy, community and time outdoors became my priority.
In my free time I can be found in nature, playing board and video games with friends and family, traveling or reading.
