Katie Winer

Anxiety is a very debilitating challenge and one of the most common ones humans face today. I love helping clients get freedom from anxiety by helping them talk at length about the experience so that I can offer understanding. Avoidance is a behavior that makes anxiety worse, so helping clients to move toward facing worrisome situations is the ultimate goal.

The approach that I use most commonly is that of Body Trust® and the tenets of Health at Every Size®. I believe in the concept of body liberation, which means freedom from the senseless requirements we have been taught to strive for when it comes to our physical appearance. Body Trust® means that we trust our bodies and we trust ourselves with our bodies, recovering the inherent wisdom we were born with in caring for our bodies, which was taken from most of us early on.

The approach that I use most commonly is that of Body Trust® and the tenets of Health at Every Size®. I believe in the concept of body liberation, which means freedom from the senseless requirements we have been taught to strive for when it comes to our physical appearance. Body Trust® means that we trust our bodies and we trust ourselves with our bodies, recovering the inherent wisdom we were born with in caring for our bodies, which was taken from most of us early on.

Addiction was the first mental health concern that I practiced treating for the first 6 years of my career. Working in outpatient and residential treatment facilities, I came to learn that addiction is a very complex issue that is not what it seems at face value. I also learned that there are a diverse array of ways to treat the underlying wounds that cause a person to be vulnerable to and developing addiction, including trauma, attachment/complex PTSD and social isolation.

Intersectional feminism is a dominant orientation that I take as a human and a mental health care professional. Intersectionality is having an awareness of the complex array of privileges and marginalized identities that we have. As a cis white woman who can typically pass as having a straight-sized body, I do not have the same lived experience of oppression as those who do not have those privileges.

Mother Nature is perhaps the greatest teacher we all have in life. Ecotherapy is an approach in which the client brings in one or multiple elements of nature into the Therapy session and I may help to foster healing and learning through this relationship. Ecotherapy sessions can be done with me in -person, remotely or even indoors!