Katie's Biography

Katie Dean is a writer, award-winning artist and energy coach who specialises in supporting people to reconnect to their true self and empowering them to live with self-love, peace and joy. She holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in history, all from Cambridge University.

Katie worked as a Business Strategy Consultant in London before becoming ill and being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2003. Her illness ended that career, and opened the door to starting her own business as a beadwork artist, designer, and tutor. Her beading designs reached the finals and won numerous international competitions. She has published more than thirty beading books.

In 2022, during the final stages of her recovery from illness, Katie pivoted her career once more, training as a Bioenergetic Health Coach and a Colour Therapist whilst studying NLP, life-coaching and trauma therapy. She combined all of these skills to create the Kolorlan System, a Blueprint for Wholeness and Metamorphosis.

Katie lives just outside of London, in the UK, and enjoys walking in nature, watching the Royal Ballet Company, spending time with her family, and indulging in just about anything creative.

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Qualifications

  • BA Hons., MA, MPhil. and PhD. from Cambridge University
  • PTTLS Certified Adult Teacher
  • Bioenergetic Health Coach: certified with Energy4Life (formerly NES health)
  • Diploma in Colour Therapy
  • Diploma in Sacred Geometry
  • Level 1 Tolpakan Healing(TM)
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Additional Studies

  • 6 months studying NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and Life Coaching at the Yager Institute, 2023-24
  • Completed the Science of Healing two-month course run by the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI) in 2023
  • Numerous online courses and workshops held by NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine), covering trauma and its various mental and emotional symptoms and presentations, 2023 - present
  • 3 month online course, Connect, Restore, Reclaim, with Thomas Huebl and Dr Richard Schwartz, 2023
  • Partaken in multiple courses run by Aimie Apigian at The Biology of Trauma, 2025

International Best-selling Author

Katie is also the author of more than thirty books about the craft of beading and jewellery-making. You can learn more about these at her website, https://beadflowers.co.uk.

In 2025, the book chronicling her recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome, Finding the Energy to Thrive: Navigating the Maze of Life and Embracing your Path to Wholeness, became an Amazon international best-seller, alongside the accompanying journal.

Featured Expert on TV

Katie is also one of the featured experts in the multi-award-winning TV series Navigating the Clickety-Clack: How to Live a Peace-Filled Life in a Seemingly Toxic World, alongside Dr Joe Vitale, Dr John Demartini, Marie Diamond and others.

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