Hi, I’m Katie Birch.
I’m a teacher, a witch, and a woman who named herself. I chose Birch because I wanted the power of claiming my own name — and naming has become the heart of my work. Before we can heal or transform, we first have to name what we are seeing. I help people find the language for the parts of themselves they’ve hidden away, so those pieces can be reclaimed and made whole again.
My path weaves together neuroscience, spirituality, myth, and lived experience. I believe healing the brain and spirit is not just a practice but a way of life — one that is both research and ritual, both science and spell. Witchcraft, to me, is a way of reorganizing your worldview on a cellular level. It’s how I got sober, stopped hating myself, and began actually enjoying my body and my life.
I carry the energy of the Dark Mother: unafraid of shadow, transformation, and initiation. Through ritual and teaching, I offer others the same doorway I walked through — into presence, sovereignty, and the magick of naming themselves.
Because I’ve done the work that most people only talk about.
I’ve taken every system—religion, relationship, education, motherhood, addiction, capitalism—and stripped it down to its bones. I’ve rebuilt my life from the inside out, through research, ritual, and ruthless honesty. I’ve lived the spiral I now teach.
I am not theorizing healing. I am its proof.
I’ve studied the brain, the body, the nervous system, the patterns of consciousness and physics that underpin reality itself—and I’ve married that science to magick. I don’t sell you inspiration; I teach you integration. I show you how to name what’s true, rewire what’s broken, and remember your power.
You pick me because I can take you where I’ve gone: into the underworld of your own story and back out again—clearer, steadier, alive.
You pick me because I don’t just promise transformation.
I embody it.
Why let me teach you?
Worth the investment
Because I’ve walked the spiral myself.
I’m not teaching from theory; I’m teaching from the edges of what it means to survive and then choose to live. I’m a sober, queer, single mother of three neurospicy kids, a trauma survivor, a researcher, and a witch. I’ve lived at the margins of pain and possibility — inside public schools, broken systems, and my own nervous system — and I’ve had to pull myself back into wholeness using everything from neuroscience and evolutionary medicine to ritual and magick.
I stand at the intersection of science and spirit, where consciousness, physics, and the nervous system meet myth, nature, and the unseen. My work is about remembering — remembering that you are nature, that your body is sacred, that healing is not outside you. I teach from that place because I know what it takes to come home to yourself, to name your truth, to live a life you no longer need to escape.
That’s why me. Because I’ve done it — and I can show you how.
What current students are saying…
“One of our greatest fears is to eat the wildness of the world.
Our mothers intuitively understood something essential: the green is poisonous to civilization. If we eat the wild, it begins to work inside us, altering us, changing us. Soon, if we eat too much, we will no longer fit the suit that has been made for us. Our hair will begin to grow long & ragged. Our gait & how we hold our body will change. A wild light begins to gleam in our eyes. Our words start to sound strange, nonlinear, emotional. Unpractical. Poetic.
Once we have tasted this wildness, we begin to hunger for a food long denied us, & the more we eat of it the more we will awaken.”
-Stephen Buhner
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