Kate Hume is originally from New York City. Her undergraduate study of Religion, Philosophy, Alternative Healing, and Psychology laid an early foundation — one she put to work in 1979 when she accepted a position as a therapist on a farm community for severely mentally ill adults.

Those early experiences in alternative healing led Kate to pursue psychiatric nursing as a path for holistic care. After graduating from Columbia University School of Nursing, she moved to Philadelphia, where she founded the first nurse-owned transitional living program for the chronically mentally ill.

In the 1980s Kate became deeply involved in psychospiritual development, earning a master's degree in Applied Psychology. Her spiritual practice gave shape to the core belief that guides her work to this day: that healing encompasses mind, body, and spirit.

In 1997 Kate received her master's in Psychiatric Nursing and became the first psychiatric Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse in Knoxville, TN. She has maintained a private practice ever since, with experience across hospitals, intensive outpatient clinics, community mental health centers, and skilled nursing facilities. She specializes in mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and adult ADHD.

Kate works from a place of openness, vulnerability and a willingness to connect. This is palpable throughout med management and psychotherapy appointments, wherein Kate employs a vast amount of knowledge and training within a philosophy that has loving at its core.