Kat offers official supervision, training, test prep and credentialing assistance for individuals seeking certification or licensure as mental health providers.
Values as a trainer, educator, & supervisor:
1. Creativity
Thinking outside of the box allows us to transcend proscribed roles and scripts and tap into greater potential and options than we had before. I challenge myself and my students/trainees/supervises to get creative in how they engage with and apply new ideas and paradigms.
2. Consciousness
Developing consciousness of our beliefs, biases, socializations, schemas, and values requires vulnerability and support. Engaging with collaborative spaces empowers us to do that work.
3. Authenticity
I challenge the folks I work with to get to know themselves and their various identities, while also developing their professional identity and authentic style and practice. I support my folks in showing up as full humans in this work, so that they may foster solid and connective therapeutic relationships.
4. Personal & Relational Empowerment
Doing this work requires ongoing commitment to learning, growing, developing, and maturing, both individually and relationally/in community. I empower my folks to be responsible for their own change processes, while also contributing to and deriving strength from community.
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Approach to education & training
As an experienced educator & trainer, I employ a student-centered approach rooted in Humanistic and Progressive philosophies. My teaching methodology emphasizes personal growth, self-determination, and experiential/transformational learning, encouraging students to connect deeply with course material through their own lived experiences. By fostering autonomy in the training space/classroom and facilitating meaningful discussions, I guide individuals in identifying personal learning objectives and applying course concepts to their individual lives, thereby enhancing engagement and retention as adult learners. Lastly, I strive to help folks cultivate critical thinking and self-reflection skills preparing them for future professional challenges.
Training Topics
- Alternative relationship structures, nonmonogamy & polyamory
- Gender affirming and integrative care
- Holistic health & integrative nutrition in clinical practice
- LGBTQ+ inclusive care
- The Psychology of Eating other holistic approaches to food
- Anti-oppressive approaches to treating substance abuse
- Integrating sex education and identities exploration into therapeutic practice
- Strategies preventing premature dropout in therapy
- Unpacking ableism and anti-ableist therapeutic practice
- Disordered eating and eating disorders: Deconstructing pathology-based lenses in therapy
Approach to Supervision
I take an integrated and affirmative approach to supervision, incorporating elements of clinician identities and change processes as they show up in the work. I work through the lenses of liberation, empowerment, and queerness to actively assist new clinicians in deconstructing power dynamics and other oppressive forces that show up in the therapy room. My approach is collaborative and direct, providing support and encouragement while holding you accountable in managing workflow, preventing burnout, and developing a deep and undefended sense of self-awareness and professional identity. As an AASECT-certified Sex Educator, I specialize in providing supervision to clinicians who are focusing their professional development and clinical work on gender and sexuality, non-monogamy/polyamory, sex-related concerns, and kink.
As a supervisor, I am also intentional in helping you discern your path of continuing education and professional development post-graduate school. We will identify specific areas of foundational training that may have been lacking in your education and fill those gaps so that you feel confident in your clinical skills. We will also assess what areas of specialization you want to focus on, creating a path forward through training and other opportunities for you to maintain a structured plan for self-guided learning. Lastly, if your goal is to open your own practice, I am happy to discuss the ins and outs of the business skills needed in this process and assist you in planning for your future.