Kaitlyn Kotelko (she/her)

This therapy model explores the meaning behind your thoughts and their purpose. Change will come about from this therapy as you learn to understand your thoughts and then practice new thought patterns that are more beneficial to you

In therapy for anxiety, the goal is for you to feel relief from your anxiety symptoms. We can do this with grounding exercises and trying to extinguish the triggers for your anxiety (if possible).

Many times, LGBTQ issues come with experiences of grief, loss, anxiety, sadness, and even trauma. My goal is to help process your experiences. We can then explore your values and make goals to get you to a place where you are living the life you wanted to live.

OCD is one of my favorite disorders to treat. Like anxiety, therapy will be focused on relieving you of OCD symptoms. Therapy might also include exploration of values to see what you can prioritize over tending to your anxiety (examples might include personal relationships, wanting to go on a trip, and/or maintaining a job).

I typically use Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) modality to guide individual therapy sessions- this therapy is about accepting your emotions, exploring your values, and then creating action-based goals to move you towards a more fulfilling life.

With families, I use Structural Family Therapy. This therapy aims to create a solution for family members by re-structuring the family (changing the family dynamics to achieve harmony for the family members).