Kate is a licensed mental health counselor with specialization and certification as a traumatologist. She also holds certifications in EMDR, advanced CBT and DBT treatment methods. 

By focusing on resilience and tools that have helped many people build a better day to day and long term goals therapy sessions can be effective and focused on the core issues a client is seeking to address. 

Kate is familiar with working with people of faith and when faith and belief make tackling a mental health problem more difficult. She has frequently worked with people of deep faith, pastors and their families or in difficult situations within the churches or faith communities. 

Kate is trained in advanced CBT (cognitive behavior therapy), DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), the Gestalt method, internal family systems or “parts” work, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) for post-traumatic stress disorder, and play therapy. Living Well has a play therapy room where Kate works with children facing adjustment disorders or otherwise responding to traumas like divorce, adoption, or abuse.

Kate is married with two children and a large extended family that keeps life full and vibrant.