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Hi there, my name is Katie and I am trained as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I am here to help you through your struggles and I believe that healing happens through connection and understanding. I work from a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens to help individuals, couples, and families build safety, strengthen relationships, and rediscover hope in their everyday lives. I want to collaborate with you on your goals and provide compassionate care while staying grounded in the belief that every person holds the innate capacity to heal, grow, and thrive. I have been in practice since 2009 with my first internship and quickly moved on after graduating to working with children and families in foster care. After gaining my license in New Jersey, I chose to go back to school for my doctoral degree with a goal of understanding attachment, caregiving, and emotions as deeply as I could. Since graduating I have been working in private practice and I teach masters level classes when the opportunity arises. My personal interests are tattoos, video games, board games, jigsaw puzzles, running, and lifting weights. I live with my family consisting of my husband and our two dogs. If who I am speaks to you, I am looking forward to getting to know you.
Our first session is a chance to slow down and start creating a sense of safety. I’ll ask questions to learn more about your story, your strengths, and what you’d like to work toward, while also giving you space to set the pace and share only what feels comfortable. From there, we’ll collaborate on a plan that supports your goals and honors your readiness for change. I always give clients the opportunity to ask questions about me in a first session as well. I know it can be difficult to share deeply personal information with someone you know nothing about. I am an open book, so ask away!
I’m known for my ability to create a calm, supportive environment where clients feel truly seen and understood. I accept my clients for who they are regardless of their context and difficulties. I believe that my clients are experts on their own lives and I am an expert in my field. With those beliefs, treatment must be collaborative. My approach helps clients make meaningful connections between their past and present, fostering emotional awareness, resilience, and stronger relationships. I tend to lean more into psychoeducation and science to help my clients understand the mechanisms that are at work within their brains and bodies that contribute to what they are feeling. If you too are into learning, I can supply you with more articles than you have time to read!
I work best with clients who are ready to understand themselves and their interpersonal relationships, both family and friendship, more deeply. Many of the people I see are navigating the effects of trauma, attachment wounds, or major life transitions. They’re often seeking not just symptom relief, but lasting change and wanting to feel more grounded, connected, and confident in who they are and how they relate to others.
Top specialties
ADHD
Anxiety
Trauma and PTSD
Other specialties
Autism
Coping Skills
Couples Counseling
I identify as
White
Woman
Adults (18 to 64)
Teenagers (13 to 17)
Maine
Harvard Pilgrim
Family Therapy
As a trained family therapist, I look at all clients as a part of the systems that they originated from. The context of your life and your family are just as important as your day to day experiences in helping to improve symptoms, self-understanding, and acceptance. While there are many theoretical approaches in family therapy that have valuable tools in understanding conflict and struggle in individuals and families, I would call myself an integrative therapist. I try to fit my treatment to the client in front of me instead of treating all of my clients with a "one size fits all" method. I am also open to feedback if you are looking for a specific metholodology.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a useful and informative approach to managing many difficult thought patterns. I use CBT skills with a lot of my clients in helping them to achieve autonomy and gain control over their thoughts and feelings. CBT skills are also threads used in many different family therapy approaches and can be useful in conjunction with other skills.
Attachment-based
My training in family therapy landed me in the world of foster care, kinship, and adoption while I was obtaining my license. I have extensive experience working with foster care and adoptive behaviors, difficult conversations, and building confidence in understanding and relationship building in foster and adoptive families. Attachment-based therapy is the primary way of understanding these unique factors that families face in these circumstances.
Trauma Informed Care
I use a trauma-informed approach that prioritizes safety, empowerment, and collaboration. By understanding how past experiences shape current patterns, I help clients build trust in themselves and in the therapeutic process, fostering resilience and lasting change. I am also familiar with Cognitive Processing Therapy, TF-CBT, and Narrative Exposure Therapy.