Hello! I am an experienced, licensed psychologist who has helped many individuals, couples, and families to navigate various life transitions. I enjoy serving clients who are willing to assess their value systems to determine if their values are still consistent with who they want to be. To some extent, our personal styles are genetically determined. However, I also believe we base our values on early learning, whether that education was positive or not.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In your first session, we will get to know each other. Together, we will begin to discover how you arrived at your crossroads, as well as start the plan for your future destination.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
As a provider, my greatest strength is my intuition. However, I learned a long time ago that my intuition is only as accurate as my knowledge and experience. Consequently, I have worked, and continue to work, to add to my knowledge and experience.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I have tremendous respect for individuals who are open to addressing their difficult experiences. To do so, requires courage, and I will partner with you on this journey. Painful life experiences leave an unfinished learning, and the purpose of therapy is to complete this learning. In individual therapy, I help client’s to say, “No,” without feeling guilty, and to move away from repetitive overthinking. We will address your “inner critic” to help you to be present in relating to others. Individual therapy can address your motivation and vitality, helping you to manage stress, rather than stress managing you. With couples and family therapy, I help couples stop having the same argument over and over. After infidelity, couples may find the path back to “us.” Partners with parenting differences can learn to collaborate for their kids. Since chronic illness can negatively impact a couple, therapy may help you both to stop asking “Why is this happening to me?” and begin asking, “How can we get through this together?” Family therapy can help blended families learn to unify, and help parents build a bridge to children.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I help clients to evaluate their goals so that their goals match their true values.
Family Therapy
I provide family therapy for the following issues: single-parenting, marital therapy for communication or cultureal differences, parents with adolescent behavioral problems, families adjusting to an illness, parents with a child diagnosed with Autism , ADHD, or an Anxiety disorder.
Couples Counseling
I help couples to improve their communication. The following are examples: couples with a neurodivergent partner, couples who have difficulty listening to each other, couples with communication difficulties due to financial stressors, and couples who are addressing commitment issues.
17 ratings with written reviews
November 21, 2025
I just feel like she gets me. She listens and advice calmly not aggressive. She makes me feel worthy and heard.
October 22, 2025
At first meeting, she appears to be a professional with great empathy. She has a warm personality. I had fun in spite of the deep hurtful (to me) things that we talked about in my past and present.
October 10, 2025
We have some challenges in our relationship and that is what has brought us to therapy. We have tried two other couples therapists in the past but I think Mrs. Katell is exactly what we were looking for. She leads the conversation with probing questions and it felt like we accomplished a lot in hour first hour together. I look forward to more sessions, I feel like she will have a lot of valuable information and insights to bring to the table.