Katie is passionate about helping improve the connection and relationship between you and your child. She strives to be an advocate both for those managing their child's behaviors and more importantly an advocate for the child struggling to manage their behaviors and emotions. Katie's goal is to develop a trusting and safe relationship between herself and your child so that she can then create a safer and more trusting relationship between YOU and your child.

Katie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) certified therapist. Through Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Katie teaches parenting and behavior management skills. In addition to PCIT, Katie uses family therapy modalities to help caregivers manage their child’s aggressive and disruptive behaviors, create increased structure in their home, set limits with their child in a nurturing way, improve the quality of the caregiver-child relationship, and improve the quality of the caregiver relationships.

Katie specializes in working with children ages 4-10 with diagnoses of GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and Adjustment Disorders . Katie specializes in working with children with emotion regulation issues, trauma histories, and behavioral concerns at school and home. Katie also works with adults managing GAD, ADHD, PTSD, and relationship issues. Katie works with individual adults, couples, and families utilizing an evidence and strength based approach. Katie believes that the client is the expert in their own lives and strives to create a safe environment for clients through a client-centered non-judgmental approach.

Katie spent three years as a community based therapist working for Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH. For the past year and a half, Katie has been serving individuals, families, and couples in Las Vegas.