Katherine (Kate) (She/Her) Allen was raised on a wheat farm in Washington state and joyfully raised a large family in Utah. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science / Psychology and a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She combines an Experiential/Solution Focused approach with other evidenced based modalities to customize therapy to client’s specific needs and circumstances.
She is passionate about helping couples and families strengthen family relationships and heal personal and intergenerational wounds. She utilizes John Gottman’s extensive work on divorce prediction and marital stability and Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy based on bonding and attachment.
Katherine has over 30 years presenting, training and counseling adopted children, adoptive families, and birth parents to encourage and enable successful adoption transitions and outcomes. She believes in and incorporates the healing power of art, music, humor, spirituality, narrative, dreams, cultural beliefs and archetypes to uncover and access the insights and strengths inherent within each individual.
Katherine has training and experience helping clients release trauma through Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Technique tapping (EFT) aligning and balancing chakra energy through Nervous System Recalibration Process (NSR) and is also a Professional Clinical Yoga Practitioner incorporating movement, breath work and visualization to support the body/mind natural healing process. She is also particularly fond of Play therapy and the incredible insights that come from sand tray and the “The Work” of Byron Katie and has a passion for the science of neuroplasticity, and building coherence and restoring balance through HeartMath techniques.
Katherine is committed to assisting clients discover a clear vision of their future and then identify the personal strengths that will enable this vision. She feels honored to share the journey to health and wellness with clients challenged by addiction, attachment, anxiety, depression, pre and post-divorce, self-harm, suicide, aging, pregnancy and postpartum transition, changing family roles and functions, grief, sexual abuse, sexual intimacy, trauma, other relational issues.