Welcome! Showing up for yourself is a brave endeavor! Perhaps you are thinking it might be time for you to share what you are experiencing with an impartial, safe professional. Reasons for seeking therapy are as varied as the individual.

Your motivation might be that you are living with someone who is experiencing mental health concerns. You are unsure how to navigate or support. You might be a caretaker of an aging parent, a sick loved one, or perhaps a person with intellectual, cognitive or physical challenges. Maybe you have a child or teenager that is experiencing difficulties in school, with peers, or recent family adjustments. A family member or friend may be living with a substance or a process addiction, such as gambling, overeating, social media, television. No matter what you’ve done to nurture or create a healthy, intimate relationship, just has not been working. Perhaps your marriage needs some tweaking, or you feel is experiencing great challenges. Exasperation, anger, resentment seem to be creeping in occupying your daily life in your thoughts and feelings.

Within yourself you may be experiencing feelings of nervousness, overwhelm, causing distraction, fatigue, or sadness. Are you wondering is this a new normal or is it not normal for you. Has taking care of your own needs, such as sleeping, eating, managing finances or home, following doctor’s orders become second to everything else? Have you been calling in sick more often than usual or the opposite, work seems to be all you do? Have relationships become challenging? Do you find yourself avoiding or isolating as a means for coping. Do you you’re yourself having gnawing thoughts continue to spiral? Have you been resisting the idea of asking for help?

Kathie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counseling. In addition, Kathie has received certification from NYU Silver School as a Trauma Informed Care and Integration. Certification in Trauma Informed Care – CBT and exposure therapy from the state of Illinois along with the spirituality of Trauma from Loyola University. Kathie has certification in the Introduction to Neurodiversity from Florida State University along with her Master’s in Education combined with current years of lived and work experience offering support to individuals, caretakers and family members of someone having a diagnosis of autism, downs syndrome, cerebral palsy. Kathie has continuing education courses and certifications for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Play Therapy, Nutrition for therapy, Fallout from a Narcissistic/ Antagonistic relationship, Family Systems. As a pastoral counselor you may want to bring your religious or spiritual beliefs or nonbelief’s into the sessions in a safe space. As a volunteer in the arena of social justice, Kathie believes and will advocate for everyone to ensure equal rights, opportunities, and treatment.

Kathie believes that each of us are born with our own strengths, gifts and talents. Right now you might be struggling trying to nourish them. You may be feeling kept down, not able to flourish. Maybe you have experienced or perpetrated a trauma and feel unable to discover or integrate it into a life you expected to live. Let’s work together to help you discover what works and root out what isn’t. Let’s work together to help you blossom in to who you are meant to become. Let’s work on your growth and resilience to create new ways of living, not just coping. Let’s foster your healing to bring you a sense of self-awareness with self-confidence through self-compassion to realize the gift you are to your self and to others.

Kathie is now accepting new clients, click below to schedule an appointment