Katie is a psychotherapist and owner of SpeakEasy Counseling and Psychotherapy. For nearly 25 years (the last eleven of those in private practice), she has had the privilege of working with individuals, families, and groups from a wide variety of backgrounds. In addition to private practice, Katie has also worked in multiple medical settings where she provided psychosocial support to people across the life-span, including the neonatal ICU, critical care, Alzheimer’s and dementia units, and cardiac care. Katie completed an End-of-Life Care certificate program at Smith College School of Social Work, has been an invited speaker by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Living Beyond Breast Cancer, and SPOHNC (Support for People with Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer), and is published in Coping with Cancer magazine and the Encyclopedia of Human Services.

Since 2012, she has also been dedicated to educating and mentoring hundreds of future mental health professionals through teaching, advising, providing clinical supervision, developing graduate curriculum, offering continuing education, and serving on national social work education committees. Her teaching appointments at Temple University, Rutgers University, Monmouth University, and others, have kept her current and engaged in best practices, theoretical frameworks, and evolving client needs. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and has been published in the Encyclopedia of Human Services and Coping with Cancer Magazine. 

Katie views a person’s mental and emotional health from a person-in-environment lens and places a high value on the context of both the subjective and objective experience of one’s outside world. She believes in using authenticity in the therapeutic relationship, creating a safe, nonjudgmental, and ethical space, and utilizing evidence-based approaches.