Hi, I'm Katie...
I'm a licensed professional counselor -- associate based in Austin, Texas providing relationally-focused psychotherapy to adults.
My work as a therapist has been deeply driven by my own life experiences of loss and longing. It took me many years to find my way into this work, but I've never felt more alive and passionate about the role I seek to embody and the clients I serve.
I don't have all of the answers - life and our humanness is much too messy and complex for that. But I believe that feeling truly seen, heard, and understood can be a profound and healing experience, particularly when we've been missed, ignored, or forgotten. What I offer is a genuine and sincere presence, insight and intuition, and to try and really know and see you just as you are with gentleness, empathy, and compassion. I believe that you are enough already and that you matter. I'm committed to joining alongside my clients to help them feel more empowered, sure of themselves, and aligned with who they want to be in the world.
Wherever your journey has taken you thus far, I'm here to listen and provide a safe space to go to deep places. The relationship that we develop together in our work has the power to become a source of meaningful change. This is why the therapist-client 'fit' is so crucial. We are wounded in relationship, and we also find healing in real, authentic relationship.
So whatever you're navigating, you don't have to be alone.
Let's share the journey together.
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
What we'll do...
We'll go at your pace.
We'll explore significant past and present relationships and how they may have formed and maintained your way of being in the world.
We'll work to help you get in touch with your own inner emotional experience - a place where insight and clarity emerges.
We’ll work to empower your sense of authenticity, freedom, and creativity by helping you discover the power of your own agency.
We'll learn about the narratives and beliefs that have shaped your life, and we'll seek to discover more genuine ways of being in the world.
We'll find ways to safely make contact with areas of your life that are causing distress - helping to free you up from whatever's keeping you stuck.
We’ll use the relationship that we develop together in our work as a means of exploring the relational patterns with others in your life and provide new emotional and relational experiences.
We’ll work to genuinely shift patterns of distress and angst toward patterns of ease and compassion.