Practical answers up top. The tissue question is toward the bottom.
Fill out the contact form on this site and we’ll get a free 15-minute consultation on the calendar.
This is not a traditional consult. With Dr. K, come prepared to interview me and make sure I’m a person who can earn your trust and the right fit for you.
Bring the hard questions. That’s what the fifteen minutes are for.
353 Main Street, Suite 4, Catawissa, PA 17820.
Look for the Catawissa Chiropractic sign. There’s a round fountain next to the road.
Yes. I see clients in person at the Catawissa office and virtually.
For virtual sessions, the link comes to your email from the platform you’re booked through: Headway, Tava, or Grow.
Between 55 and 60 minutes, unless we discuss something different.
Ages 13 to 65.
Most of the individual work is with women 30 to 50, men 25 to 50, and teens 13 to 17. Couples and LGBTQIA+ clients are part of the practice too.
Trauma, mostly. Complex trauma and relational trauma, the kind that builds over years rather than landing in one event.
Anxiety and hypervigilance travel with that territory, and a lot of my work is with people whose minds run too fast to shut off.
Teens are a specialty as well, especially athletes and kids who have stopped going to school.
Therapists are welcome here too. Clinicians need their own therapist as much as anyone does.
That’s a big part of who ends up in my office. People who sat in a room before and felt unseen, or lectured, or processed without anyone asking first.
Trust comes before technique here. If you don’t trust me, it doesn’t matter what modalities I know, because no real work gets done.
Come in skeptical. Challenge accepted.
I’m trained in EMDR, and most of the trauma work here runs on it. Somatic work threads through nearly all of it too.
EMDR uses guided eye movement or tapping to help your brain finish processing memories it never filed properly, so they stop ambushing you in the present.
Somatic work means paying attention to what your body is doing, because anxiety and trauma live in your chest and your shoulders, not only in your head.
DBT gives you practical skills for the moments when emotions get too big to handle. That’s the one I’m certified in.
CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Relational-Cultural work fill in from there, depending on what’s actually in front of you.
We build the homework together rather than me handing you an assignment. If a thing doesn’t fit your real life, it won’t get done, and neither of us needs that.
Everything I ask of you comes with the reason behind it. You’ll never do an exercise without knowing why.
I also use assessments and show you the results, so your progress is something you can look at instead of something you take my word for.
Small wins are the steps.
A Master’s in Social Work and a Doctorate in Social Work, clinical track. My doctoral focus was traumatology.
About twenty years of clinical work sits behind that. Five-plus of those years were in residential treatment with adolescents, plus inpatient and intensive outpatient work.
I moved into private practice in December.
Yes. LCSW, which means I’m licensed to diagnose and treat independently.
Absolutely.
Not if you don’t want to. I have several seating options.
If you feel like it’s necessary.
The strong kind.
Yes. I’ll let you know what I’m open to sharing and what would be too much.
I’ve done a lot of research on apps that help with screen time, motivation to move and eat better, and setting personal goals that line up with therapy. ScreenZen, Finch, Pikmin Bloom, and Bitepal.
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