Katherine Hyer (she/her)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By identifying unhelpful patterns, we work collaboratively to challenge negative thinking, strengthen coping strategies, and develop practical tools to manage stress, improve mood, and support meaningful, sustainable change in daily life.

Emotionally Focused Therapy helps clients identify, understand, and work through emotions in a supportive and collaborative setting. By exploring underlying emotional patterns, therapy supports greater emotional awareness, resolution of internal conflicts, and improved connection with self and others. This approach promotes emotional clarity, resilience, and more satisfying relationships and life experiences.

Internal Family Systems helps clients understand the different parts of themselves, including emotions, thoughts, and behavior patterns, and how these parts interact. In a safe and compassionate therapeutic space, clients work to resolve internal conflicts, reduce self-criticism, and strengthen a sense of internal balance. This approach supports insight, emotional regulation, and healthier ways of relating to oneself and others.

You look fine from the outside. Successful, capable, holding it together. But inside? Exhausted. You manage anxiety through control, perfectionism, or constant productivity. You overthink everything. You can't turn your brain off. The strategies that once helped you succeed now feel like they're running your life. We work on understanding what you're actually self-treating with these patterns. Why do you need to control everything? What are you avoiding by staying so busy?

You keep having the same fight. Or maybe you've stopped fighting and just feel distant. One of you pursues, the other withdraws. Or you're both shut down, going through the motions. We identify the patterns keeping you stuck and work on creating connections that actually last. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we help you understand what's really happening underneath the conflict—the fears, needs, and attachment injuries driving the cycle. The goal is to break patterns and change.

Trauma isn't just big, dramatic events. It's also growing up walking on eggshells. Being dismissed or invalidated repeatedly. Experiencing emotional abuse that nobody recognized. Those experiences shape how you respond to stress, relationships, and emotions today. Maybe you shut down when conflict arises. Or you're hypervigilant, always scanning for danger. We work on understanding your fight-or-flight responses and finding ways to ground yourself using mindfulness and other coping strategies.

You look fine from the outside. Successful, capable, holding it together. But inside? Exhausted. You manage anxiety through control, perfectionism, or constant productivity. You overthink everything. You can't turn your brain off. The strategies that once helped you succeed now feel like they're running your life. We work on understanding what you're actually self-treating with these patterns. Why do you need to control everything? What are you avoiding by staying so busy?

You keep having the same fight. Or maybe you've stopped fighting and just feel distant. One of you pursues, the other withdraws. Or you're both shut down, going through the motions. We identify the patterns keeping you stuck and work on creating connections that actually last. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we help you understand what's really happening underneath the conflict—the fears, needs, and attachment injuries driving the cycle. The goal is to break patterns and change.