Kathryn graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in 2004, and graduated from McMaster University with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2006.

She has worked in Tertiary Mental Health, Residential Care, and Home and Community Care. For the last 12 years, she has been working at Royal Inland Hospital in Rehabilitation and Acute Care, seeing a variety of clients with strokes, traumatic brain injuries, MS, dementia, mental health disorders, multi-trauma, and wounds.

Kathryn and her family have called Kamloops home since 2006 and she enjoys playing with her boys, camping, backpacking, biking, reading and gardening.