Kathleen Smith (she/her)

As a marriage and family therapist, I help couples at all stages in their relationship. We will focus on the patterns in your relationship that are keeping you stuck in cycles that you do not like. I will help you improve your communication skills with one another. I can also teach you concrete tools to manage emotions and symptoms related to processing trauma.

Families are complicated, but I believe that we can all develop healthier relationships and thereby improve our quality of life. I will help you notice and change the patterns that are keeping you stuck and equip you with concrete skills to change your relationships.

CBT can include strategies like working together on improving self-care habits, reducing self-criticism and unhelpful thought patterns, using mindfulness techniques, deep breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is used to help couples identify their negative interactional patterns, express their emotions fully, and reconnect with one another through therapeutic coaching. Creating a safe environment allows clients to feel open to express themselves and change their interactional patterns.

Experiential therapy helps clients to move through layers of understanding their coping styles, emotions, expectations, and beliefs to understand what is at the core of the self and determine more fully what they really need and want. The therapist can help clients process these layers of self through slowly inviting clients to create a deeper understanding of why they behave how they do and create changes.