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What Kat and her clients work on in therapy together isn’t only meant for now. It’s meant to last a lifetime.
Kat’s approach tends to interweave philosophy into an endless array of eclectic therapeutic methods, depending on what most resonates with her clients. These might include discovering and practicing daily adaptive strategies; reframing untrue narratives about themselves and external circumstances; discovering new perspectives in life; writing (bonus if you share it with her!); reading; laughing… and lots and lots of questions!
EMDR: You are not your trauma. Kat was trained by a renowned EMDR clinician and feels a practical obligation to reach as many humans as she can. Through EMDR work, her clients have successfully freed themselves from a wide range of experiences including trauma, low self-esteem, and agoraphobia.
Mood Disorders: Life doesn’t have to suck if you were diagnosed with a disorder listed in the DSM-5 ‘rule-book’. You are not your disorder. It’s about recognizizng and managing its symptoms and allowing yourself compassion. Diagnosed in her 30s with bipolar II disorder, she has both extensive personal and professional experience in successfully managing the common clinical symptoms and psychological patterns associated with it, and ways they can negatively impact on our well-being.
Daily Stress Management: Anxiety can zap the joy out of life. Kat is proud to say she no longer meets the criteria for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) due to a combination of therapeutic strategies, medication, and practicing daily breathwork. Whether you have automatic negative thoughts (ANTS), anxiety attacks, or something else, she is excellent at supporting her clients’ work through all of it.
Breathwork: It’s free, it’s easy, and we have to do it to survive, so why not utilize breathing as an effective way to improve your well-being? Breathwork traces its roots back thousands of years across ancient spiritual and medical traditions. However, breathwork is not only effective at managing unpleasant experiences, it can also be beneficial to practice as a daily maintenance tool while doing neutral or mundane tasks—such as showering, driving, and emailing. Not only that, deliberate breathing also places emphasis on appreciating all the pleasant moments in life—spending time with loved ones, petting our furbabies, and noticing the natural wonders of the world, such as the changing of each season. Life is made of moments. Deliberate breathing feels good and allows for mindfulness in each of them.
As a matter of fact, Kat did breathwork the entire time she wrote this bio because she really dislikes writing bios.
Unplugging: Do you find yourself struggling with a sense of emptiness often associated with endless scrolling? If so, you are not alone. Research suggests that heavy social media use may be linked to depression, anxiety, sleep, body image, loneliness, and more. Just cutting your screen time down from hours a day to thirty minutes can play a role in noticeably improving your mood. She’s here to support you through the untrue FOMO associated with it and identifying enriching alternatives.
Executive Function Training: Although she’s been training with Brandon Tessers in executive functioning since 2023, she often still struggles with her own executive dysfunction challenges and frustrating symptoms of ADHD, like so many of her clients. The brain is fascinating! Learning more about the different facets of our working memory and how to more successfully manage daily tasks, planning, and organization may help make life easier.
About Kat: Besides social work, Kat also studied ecology and she adores all of the flora and fauna on this beautiful planet. She enjoys travel adventures with her husband, and her favorite hobby is amateur wildlife photography. Always quick with a joke, she’s been told her sense of humor tends to lean towards the dumb and demented side. Whatever that means.
Katherine provides individual, group and family therapy virtually to clients in the state of Illinois. She works with a wide range of ages, including children, adolescents, and adults.
Specialties: Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Climate Grief, Relationship Issues, Executive Functioning, ADHD, Self-Esteem, Neurodiversity, Burnout
Services Offered: Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy
Ages: Children, Teens, Adults
Directory Profiles: Psychology Today, Inclusive Therapists, Therapy Den
