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About Your Therapist

Katie Lenahan, LCPC, CADC (she/her)

About Me
Hi there! I'm Katie, and I'm a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) and certified drug and alcohol counselor (CADC). My personal philosophy of therapy is this: none of us are broken, or need ‘fixing.’ We all have old ways of learning and coping that we developed along the way, through the twists and turns of life, that have helped us to survive our most difficult moments. However, there comes a time in which our life changes, or our environments change, or our relationships change; and our old ways of thinking or acting or learning or coping no longer serve us as they used to.

Our work together is twofold: first, we seek to understand and build compassion for our past learning and past experiences, while then examining our ways of coping and flexibly altering or adapting them as needed to fit our personal values, current environments, and to move towards the life that we want for ourselves.
 

Clinical Style
My personal style as a therapist and human is warm, direct, and transparent. I love to laugh and believe that humor is one of the most powerful mechanisms of healing that we have. I utilize a strengths-based approach and hope to pull from the reserves of courage, strength, and resilience that every human has inside of them. Though I use humor in my work and believe that it’s important not to take ourselves too seriously, I also balance this with the compassion and kindness that we all deserve when navigating a difficult moment or coming into contact with a painful experience.

I believe that there is nothing more important in therapy than the therapeutic relationship, and I feel honored and humbled every day by the trust that my clients have placed in me to support them in their courageous work. I strive to create a space where clients feel heard, seen, and accepted in relation to all parts of themselves; even the parts that, for years, may have been hidden or silenced by shame.

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Clinical Experience
​In my last role, I was the executive director of a group therapy practice, and led all clinical training and supervision related to eating disorders, body image concerns, and disorders of emotional overcontrol.

My clinical experience spans 15 years in all levels of care:

• Community mental health settings

• Residential treatment centers

• Inpatient hospital programs

• Partial hospitalization programs (PHP)

• Intensive outpatient and outpatient settings
   

Clinical Training

I utilize and adapt empirically validated treatments such as:

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for trauma

• Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), training in which I received directly from a leader in the field, Kristy Arbon

• Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT), training in which I received directly from the founder of this treatment, Dr. Thomas Lynch.

• My experience includes over 130 hours of training in providing counseling and court advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.