Meet our Clinical Director

Kathryn Whitlock
MA, ATR-BC, LPC, CCTP-II

“At my core I consider myself a person-centered clinician - I firmly believe that clients are the expert on their own lives and that all of the answers they might need to any of life’s troubles can be accessed within. Unconditional positive regard is the foundation of every aspect of my work. My office will always be a judgement-free zone, as it is of paramount importance to me that my practice is a space of warm welcome, of comfort, of safety, and of transparency. I live these values by engaging in active and up-front treatment planning, including clients in goal-setting and treatment reviews, and data mapping using self-report scores to help clients better understand the dynamics of their nervous system. My primary theoretical orientation joins Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy with Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory in order to facilitate a deeper connection with the Core Self and to familiarize each client with their nervous system’s functioning. This is paired with facilitating client development of increased positive mechanisms of coping and functioning, and assisting them in resolving painful or maladaptive content from the past through the use of personal narrative. ”

Since attaining licensure in 2021, the primary foci of Kathryn’s practice are as follows:

    1. Increase emotional resilience and regulation

    2. Decrease frequency and severity of experiences of displaced fear,
      re-experiencing, intrusive thoughts, feelings of sadness, chronic fatigue, and dissociation.

    3. Identifying potential triggers in order to resolve unconscious material that contributes to trigger frequency.

    4. Building healthy coping structures to assist clients in self-soothing, grounding, and orienting to time and place.

    1. Explore factors of sensory regulation in order to better understand sensory needs.

    2. Resolve painful memories from the past relating to missed or misdiagnosis

    3. Resolve harmful patterns of masking which contribute to burnout.

    4. Build healthy coping structures through grounding, self-soothing, and mindfulness.

    5. Develop more effective interpersonal boundaries.

    6. Advocate for themselves in school, work, and interpersonal settings.

    1. Reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.

    2. Increase experiences of mindfulness and contentment.

    3. Learn and implement healthier methods of coping with daily stressors.

    4. Connect with Self-Energy by exploring subconscious material in art.

    5. Learn new skills, which has been linked to increased Neuroplasticity.

    6. Reduce harmful and maladaptive patterns of negative self-talk and perfectionism.

Kathryn’s Portfolio