Hello! I'm Katherine. I received my Masters in Counseling Psychology in 2011 from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University). Before pursuing my Masters degree and MFT license, I worked for many years as an educator specializing in leading youth retreats. It was through the facilitation of hundreds of retreats that I came to realize that young people (and people in general) have an amazing capacity to clue us into their true needs and wants, if only we can listen and create space for them. I began developing curriculum for teens and teaching about social and emotional learning and development. These experiences led me to pursue counseling formally. As someone who has always been a deeply spiritual person I found myself drawn to the transpersonal and holistic models of psychology, which led me to study at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
The thread throughout all of my clinical work has been my focus on relationships. I am deeply fascinated with relationships and how we as humans interact and go about getting our needs met. I am deeply committed to strengthening the quality of our human relationships and assisting others to be more authentic within those relationships. My work with relationships spans a specialization in couples therapy, to sitting with families with incarcerated youth, to family work to address behavioral change. My aim is to help individuals discover and express more of who they are, and to bring more cohesiveness to relationships.
Weaving together mindfulness practices, depth psychology, the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, gestalt and Internal Family Systems, I offer many different perspectives and practical tools. I regularly invite greater awareness to what is happening in the body, especially during conflicts and love to teach how to soothe the nervous system from dysregulation. Together we will learn what it means to be truly present with oneself and with others. My approach in therapy is friendly, sincere, personalized, and always compassionate. I look forward to hearing from you and getting started!
Additional areas of focus: Family conflicts, Grief, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Blended family issues, Body image, Codependency, Commitment issues, Control issues, Divorce and separation, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Infidelity, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Postpartum depression, Pregnancy and childbirth, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Smoking / vaping cessation, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems
CA LMFT 87393