Kathy@htwcc.org

My Background and Approach to Therapy

I earned a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA in 1990. My postgraduate experience included internships in both inpatient hospital settings and outpatient private practice settings where I worked with individuals, couples, families and groups. Common issues I addressed in therapy included anxiety, depression, marital/relationship issues, parenting concerns, life transitions, and emotional and spiritual growth issues.

After the birth of my first child, I took a long term sabbatical from the formal practice of marriage and family therapy. During this time, I taught parenting classes, worked with struggling parents as a parenting consultant, completed a year long training program in ontological life coaching and acquired further knowledge and competencies in the areas of human growth and development through workshops and continued studies. In the spring of 2009 I re-initiated the journey of fulfilling the State of Georgia requirements to become a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as I found that the desire and the ability to be fully present with people in their search for wholeness and fulfillment is an integral part of who I am.

My approach to therapy is rooted primarily in psychodynamic, experiential and systems theories. However no matter what particular theories, techniques or strategies I feel might best be suited to meeting your concerns and needs, I hold the core belief that it is in empathic relationships (both with ourselves and others) where deep healing, growth, a sense of empowerment, and well being reside. Toward that end, I will always strive to co-create a safe, supportive, caring space where what is truly at “the heart of the matter” for you can emerge and your own innate capacities for healing and for living a personally constructed, meaningful, authentic life will be activated.