Karyn Alison Thompson (also known as KAT, which is how she’s known in her psychedelic & social community), is the founder of Fractal Soul with over 20 years of high tech and entrepreneurial experience. Most recently, she led Planning & Execution activities as a Strategy & Operations leader at Twitter. She has also held senior titles at Nike, Intel, and in management consulting.

Kat got bitten with the entrepreneurial bug at age 8 selling books for her school, and it never quite went away. She launched her first company, Black Label Films, at age 28 as part of an MBA capstone project which included a required pitch to a VC firm. It went on to become a successful multiple six-figure income generating company until she sold it to a filmmaker colleague in Miami to take an exciting opportunity at Nike.

Kat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, graduating magna cum laude from George Fox University, and an MBA with a focus in Health & Technology, graduating summa cum laude from OHSU. She is a certified holistic health and nutrition coach through Precision Nutrition, the world’s #1 Nutrition Coaching academy. She is also an Oregon State-Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator with trauma-centered training. A lifelong learner, in 2024 she will be pursuing her board certification in holistic integrative health coaching and in 2025 intends to pursue an advanced (master’s or doctorate) degree in Transpersonal Psychology. Kat is an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church for the purposes of non-denominational spiritual and sacred ceremonies.

For 25 years, Kat has learned from dozens of the world’s top researchers, authors and educators in the fields of mental health, trauma, grief, childhood wounding, addiction, and shame. Learning modalities have been books, paid courses and conferences, and podcasts. Of particular interest to her is Shadow work involving generational trauma, as her own parents’ and grandparents’ generations suffered multiple traumas including including domestic violence, alcoholism, war trauma and poverty/food insecurity. She is uniquely suited to this work due to her comfort with psychological darkness and ability to ground and balance clients going through difficult times.

Kat became an advocate for psilocybin after experiencing its life-changing power with microdosing when it was decriminalized in Oregon in 2021. She has also completed over a dozen therapeutic journeys at doses ranging from half gram to 3 grams, so she has hands-on practical experience of different symptoms and outcomes at different doses. It’s important for clients to know that Kat has never taken psilocybin recreationally. She has always used it intentionally, to heal and/or connect.

She is thrilled to be able to bring this powerful Nature medicine legally to the Portland community and welcome new clients into the Fractal Soul family.

Please note: Fractal Soul does not work with clients on journeys over 3 grams of dried cubensis mushroom (this is not a licensing limitation but a professional decision). We believe over 30mg of psilocybin analyte has limited therapeutic benefit for the areas we work in. Larger doses also carry greater risk of unwanted side effects.