Welcome!

Hi, my name is Katie, and I use she/her pronouns. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Washington State with over a decade of trauma-informed experience.

I am passionate about working with individuals struggling with difficult thoughts, emotions, and experiences impacting your ability to live your best life. By creating an accepting space, I work to support you to tune in to your inner wisdom, identifying and changing unhelpful patterns and beliefs.

I acknowledge the traumatic experience that systems of oppression have on individuals and groups and bring an anti-oppressive and intersectionally feminist approach to therapy. As a white, cisgender woman, I approach my lifelong exploration of power, privilege, and oppression with beginner’s mind. I welcome discussions that acknowledge and challenge oppression and its harmful impact on individuals, families, communities, and the therapeutic relationship itself.

Outside of my therapy practice, I teach clinical social work courses at the University of Washington, both in Tacoma and Seattle. I enjoy trail running, practicing yin yoga, baking, and reading books—both fiction and therapy-related.

If you’re curious to learn more about therapy with me, please contact me!

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Education

  • Master of Social Work, University of Washington

  • Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Minor in Gender Studies, Whitman College

Professional Affiliations

  • Perinatal Support Washington

  • Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work, Past Professional Development Chair