Rooted Connections Coaching | Life Transitions Coach

Welcome

Every life moves through thresholds.

Leaving home. Changing careers. Becoming a parent. Losing a parent. Beginning again. These are the moments that ask more of you — and the moments where a skilled guide makes all the difference.

I'm Katharine Zink (she/her), a life transitions coach and licensed therapist. I work with people across the globe who are stepping into something new — a first chapter, a next chapter, or the quiet space between.

Meet Katharine

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What's Different Here

Coaching with a therapist's eye.

Most coaches bring tools and strategies. I bring those — and something more: a trained clinical lens that ensures you're always getting the right level of support.

As a licensed therapist, I can recognize when something needs deeper healing, and I'll help you navigate that transition with care. In the coaching space the main focus is on moving forward rather than processing the past. And with me you will have someone in the room to recognize and hold these varying needs with you.

Coaching vs. Therapy

Therapy tends to the places in our lives that are asking for healing, integration, and deeper understanding. Coaching also honors where you've been, but with a stronger focus on where you're going. Therapy is about recovering what was lost; coaching is about building what's next.

Therapist-Informed

Coaching grounded in clinical insight — so you're always getting the right support for where you actually are.

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Strength-Based

We start with who you already are. Your story, your experience, your knowing — all of it becomes the foundation for what's next.

Across the Lifespan

From young adults launching into independence to those designing a rich next chapter — coaching that meets you wherever you are.

How I Help

Five thresholds. One practice.

Coaching that meets you wherever you are in the arc —
and walks with you toward who you're becoming.

Launching into Adulthood

For young adults stepping into independence — figuring out who you are when no one's handing you the next step.

Career & Calling

Pivots, promotions, and the quiet question of whether the work still fits.

Relationships & Emotional Intelligence

Partnership shifts, co-parenting with care, and the daily practice of communicating what actually matters.

Midlife & Reinvention

When the map you've been following runs out. Rebuilding identity and purpose on your own terms.

Navigating What's Next

Retirement, empty-nesting, loss, and late-life transitions. Designing a chapter that feels alive.

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You Belong Here

A Practice Built for Everyone

This practice is built for the full range of human experience and with deep respect for people who have not always felt seen, understood, or safely welcomed as they are.

If you are neurodivergent, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, living with chronic pain, navigating learning or intellectual differences, or carrying the weight of being misunderstood, masked, minimized, or measured against standards that were never made for you, you are welcome here.

You do not have to arrive polished, explained, or easy to categorize. You do not have to mask, translate yourself, or prove that your experience is real. Here, you are welcome as your full self — with your questions, your needs, your tenderness, your complexity, and your becoming.

"A threshold isn't something you go around.
It's something you choose to step through."

— Katharine Zink, Rooted Connections Coaching

From the Blog

Writing

Reflections on life transitions, the messy middle, and the ongoing work of becoming — published on Rooted Connections Therapy and written for anyone navigating the arc of a full human life.

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May 2026

A Therapist Who Bites Her Nails

Thoughts from a therapist with a busy brain, bitten nails, and a deep belief in the beauty of imperfect humans — on ADHD, anxiety, sleepless nights, and why our humanity is the very thing that lets us connect.

Read on rocotherapy.com →

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Newsletter

Between Roots and Branches is a letter for people navigating the in-between — the thresholds, transitions, and quiet ordinary moments that don't make the highlight reel but make up most of a life.

You'll find books I'm reading, things I'm noticing, and honest reflections from a therapist and coach who is also, always, a person in process.

Thoughtful content. Real events. Your inbox, respected.

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Let's Begin

Start with a Connection Call.

Connection Calls are free, unhurried, and a chance to see if we're the right fit. We'll talk about what's moving in your life — and I'll share how coaching can support where you want to go.

No commitment. No pressure. Just a real conversation.

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