Katherine McAdams (she/her)

My graduate training included a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy. When it fits the client, sessions may include drawing, visual metaphors, writing, storytelling, music, movement, games, or other creative forms of exploration. Artistic skill is never required, and creative work is always optional. These approaches can make abstract feelings more visible, support communication when words are hard to find, and create new ways to understand patterns, strengths, and possibilities.

Person-centered therapy means you are treated as the expert on your own life. I bring clinical knowledge, curiosity, honesty, and support, but I do not force you into a predetermined path or assume there is one correct way to heal. We work collaboratively at a pace that respects your autonomy, values, culture, identity, and nervous system. The relationship we build becomes a place to practice self-understanding, self-trust, and showing up without having to perform or mask.

Even in individual therapy, none of us develops in isolation. A family systems perspective helps us explore how roles, relationships, expectations, culture, and patterns from your family or other important systems may shape the way you see yourself and respond today. The goal is not to blame your family. It is to understand the context around your coping strategies, recognize patterns you want to keep or change, and develop more intentional ways of relating to yourself and others.

Anxiety can look like constant worry, perfectionism, overthinking, people-pleasing, avoidance, irritability, or feeling unable to turn your brain off. I help teens and adults understand what their anxiety is trying to protect them from, reduce shame, and build practical ways to respond. We will work collaboratively to create more flexibility, self-trust, and room for rest without expecting you to think positively or simply push through.

As an ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, I work with teens and adults navigating executive-functioning challenges, overwhelm, time blindness, emotional intensity, procrastination, inconsistent motivation, and years of feeling lazy or undisciplined. Together, we identify what gets in the way and develop realistic tools that work with your brain. Therapy also makes space for identity, grief, strengths, relationships, and the shame that often accompanies ADHD.

I provide neurodiversity-affirming therapy for autistic teens and adults, including people who are diagnosed, self-identified, questioning, or recognized later in life. We can explore masking, sensory needs, burnout, relationships, identity, self-advocacy, and the impact of living in environments that may not fit you. The goal is not to make you appear less autistic. It is to help you understand yourself, reduce shame, communicate your needs, and build a life that works better for you.

As an ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, I work with teens and adults navigating executive-functioning challenges, overwhelm, time blindness, emotional intensity, procrastination, inconsistent motivation, and years of feeling lazy or undisciplined. Together, we identify what gets in the way and develop realistic tools that work with your brain. Therapy also makes space for identity, grief, strengths, relationships, and the shame that often accompanies ADHD.