Katherine Ponte, BA, JD, MBA, CPRP is a mental health advocate, author, non-profit leader, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. Katherine has been living with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis for over twenty years. Since reaching recovery in 2018, she has committed herself to helping people with mental illness through her ForLikeMinds peer support platform, writings, and other thought leadership. She is a faculty member with the Yale University, School of Medicine, Program for Recovery and Community Health. Katherine has a BA and JD from leading Canadian universities, and an MBA from the Wharton School. She is also a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and NY Certified Peer Specialist-Provisional.
Katherine developed ForLikeMinds into an online community of over 100,000 and a range of recovery-oriented initiatives. Katherine created Psych Ward Greeting Cards, 501(c)(3) non-profit, a leading psychiatric hospital outreach program that has reached well over 10,000 psychiatric unit patients. Katherine provides one-on-one coaching to families through her Serious Mental Illness Recovery Coaching.
She is the author of ForLikeMinds: Mental Illness Recovery Insights, Your Mental Health Recovery Workbook, and Loving Someone With a Serious Mental Illness. Her videos, writings and social media work has reached millions. Katherine is a board member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-New York City and a member of Fountain House. She has been a speaker at various industry conferences and seminars and interviewed by CBS, CNN, INSIDER, and WebMD.
She is based in New York City and the Catskills where she lives with her spouse and tremendous supporter.