Katie Killeen (she/her)

Relational therapy may heal past betrayals, return to the connection you once felt, bolster your love, or support the relationship through transitions. We’ll seek to acknowledge the pain behind patterns of conflict, creating new ways to communicate vulnerability and longing. I work with clients in ENM & monogamous relationships, new relationships, queer relationships, non-romantic relationships, and working to heal after affairs. I am trained & supervised in Emotions Focused Therapy.

I work with women to understand patterns of chronic caretaking and unmet needs, codependency, heartbreak, and the impact of societal and familial messages around womanhood. Through our work together, you gain the strength to honestly hold your experiences and explore how you have learned to protect yourself from heavy feelings and create new patterns of comfort. The experience of feeling known in therapy is something you can carry on in how you respond to your own needs and others.

I provide gender-affirming therapy for clients seeking to understand their identity and the cultural & personal blocks in knowing themselves. In therapy, we safely explore parts of ourselves that may have felt rejected and betrayed, creating new rhythms of comfort and compassion. I work with clients who are both exploring their gender and clients who are confident in their gender in both individual and relationship therapy.

Emotion Focused Therapy is Attachment Theory in action. Whether with an individual or people in a relationship, we seek to understand the patterns we play out as part of our attachment style and the big vulnerable feelings that are most often hidden. Emotion Focused Therapy is all about experiencing a new, transformative emotional experience in session and learning new ways to comfort our partners (when in relationship therapy) and ourselves.

Relational therapy considers how your mental health and patterns of responding are specific to the contexts of different connections. How do you show up in relationships where you feel respected and understood? How do cultural messages impact how your show up? Relational work also means we won't shy away from exploring our connection, the moments when you feel empowered as well as those when something feels off.

In Attachment-based therapy, we look at the patterns and dynamics in your relationships and seek to understand where you learned to protect yourself in these ways. Whether your attachment style is Anxious, Avoidance, Fearful Avoidant, or Secure, we'll extend compassion to these learned responses and take risks in trying something new. I love attachment work because it gives us the framework to understand our past and grieve the safety we may not have received.