Knowing that each client is unique and is centered in their own unique environmental system, I draw from many frameworks and models of therapy to best address each individual's needs. Most commonly, I practice within the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model, alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a Jungian lens. Much of my work includes somatic awareness and movement exploration through my training as a registered dance movement therapist. I am a strengths-based practitioner helping clients capitalize on their own inner resiliency and compassionate inner witness. I have helped many clients through grief, transition, trauma, depression, and everyday anxiety toward more integration and sense of ideal self. Below are some of the categories that are often tended to during my work with clients:

Services & Specialities

Adjustment/Life Transitions

Relationship Issues

Sense of Self

Coping Mechanisms

LGBTQ+ Issues

Anxiety

Spirituality

Depression/Grief

Mindfulness

Trauma

“Katherine has cultivated a mindful, safe, and open space for me to talk about absolutely anything in my life. She offers a kind and judgement-free zone that has allowed me to explore and process the stuck areas in my life.”

-Client, age 29

What to expect in therapy

Some clients will experience the session in a traditional talk therapy manner with attention to the breath or body’s sensations as a way of listening deeper to one’s emotions while, at the same time, learning skills to regulate and soothe the nervous system. Other clients may be interested in more somatic work and deepening self-awareness through sensing into the body and its holding patterns or emotional landscape; working somatically can be a helpful approach in healing trauma that may be stored in the body and need a more subtle approach than talk therapy. As a dance movement therapist, I also am able to work with clients who would like to explore self-expression and layers of the unconscious self through movement, imagery, and memory. This could include the practice of Authentic Movement in which the therapist is the witness as the client allows themselves to be moved by the body, listening to its story, gestures, or dynamics that will be explored in the session. Each session is catered specifically to the unique client and what you bring and are willing to explore through more traditional cognitive-emotional talk therapy and/or more embodied, somatic therapy with the option of movement as an expressive therapy tool.