Catherine Mellinger (she/they) is an Expressive Arts Therapist (EXAT), Perinatal Mental Health Therapist (CC-PMH), mixed media collage artist, inter-arts artist, and embedded arts facilitator. Their mixed media works have been exhibited across Turtle Island and published Internationally.

Originally from land belonging to Treaty 6 (Colonially named Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) she currently lives and works in what is colonially named Waterloo, land included in the Haldimand Tract and belonging to the Neutral, Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples.

Catherine is currently working in private practice, as well completing an MA: Theology - Spiritualities and Community Engagement - at Martin Luther University College (Wilfrid Laurier). Their academic research investigates the connection between Expressive Arts Therapy phenomenology, polyaesthetics and liminality comparative to mystical spiritual experiences, as well as the intersections of historical spiritual frameworks of motherhood and parenting compared to current societal secular frameworks which position parents as drivers of economy.

Catherine identifies as a queer femme artist living with invisible disabilities.