McNall

Kat brings authenticity, humor, insight, compassion, and a calm, grounded presence into the room. They believe that empathy and curiosity are fundamental components in the therapeutic process. With a trauma-responsive interventions and culturally humble approach, Kat meets clients where they are on a day-to-day basis and welcomes collaboration and feedback throughout the process. They strive to help you meet life’s challenges in a way that is intuitive, holistic, and rooted firmly in your values and perspective. Kat approaches therapeutic work from an eclectic perspective, but works primarily in the realm of Existential therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy supports to provide clients with practical skills for navigating long standing challenges, in alignment with their values and unique life experience.

With a background in the arts, Kat embraces creative self expression as a tool for meeting life’s challenges and exploring root causes of discord or discomfort. By reflecting on internal discoveries and here-and-now challenges in the day to day, clients are able to see the wide effects of their actions and reactions, and acknowledge the historical origins of challenging circumstances to foster insight on long-standing patterns of behavior.

Kat believes that self discovery is some of the hardest and most rewarding work a person can do and, utilizing both curiosity and creativity, maintains an open, affirming space for every client in their care.

Kat’s passion for fostering self discovery has led them to work extensively with creatives, the LGBTQIA+ community, emerging adults, higher education students, and affirming nontraditional relationships including Polyamorous, Kinky, and Queer relationships. They maintain a practice that centers cultural humility, anti-incarceration practices, trauma informed and responsive care, and intersectionality. Other specialties include intersectional identity development (including Gender identity), acculturation challenges, self concept, Women's Issues, Queer and Trans Issues, Career counseling and work/life balance through an intersectional and systemic lens, AD/HD management, Emotional regulation, Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, and Adjustment disorders. Above all, Kat believes that authenticity is met with authenticity, and the strength in that relationship intuitively fosters a strong connection that is the basis for long-term healing.