Trainings & Experience

• Master’s of Science in Counseling Psychology (2007)

• Gottman Method For Couples Therapy - Level 3 Trained

• Emotion Focused Couples & Family Therapy (ICEEFT)

• Skills based approaches: Mindfulness-based CBT, DBT, ACT

• EMDR for trauma work (Attachment-Focused EMDR, Level 3 trained through the Parnell Institute)

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Some things to know about me…

• I wear many hats. I love getting to know people. 

• I value growth both personally and professionally

• I look to the research no matter how long I’ve been practicing

• I appreciate humor and believe laughter (as well as tears) can be healing.

• I am comfortable with feelings and can hold space for yours.

• I am a mom of three spirited and amazingly neurodiverse children.

• I love my dogs, running distances, and growing things I can eat.

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Katie believes that therapy is a collaborative process during which clients may gain support, develop self-awareness, and build skills and compassion to live a more balanced and fulfilling life. She provides a warm and safe environment where clients can explore how past experiences and current stressors impact thoughts, feelings, behaviors and relationships. Ultimately, the development of healthy boundaries, communication, and coping lead to connection, healing, and growth. Katie’s approach to therapy integrates several treatment modalities to allow for a more holistic perspective on client’s presenting concerns and path to wellness. She believes that every person arrives in therapy with their own set of strengths which she will help clients build upon. In addition to being collaborative and non-judgmental, Katie’s approach is warm yet direct and open. Her approach helps clients set goals, build skills, and find relief.

Katie’s approach is rooted in evidence-based practices (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy,Attachment-focused EMDR, Gottman Method for Couples Therapy; Relational Neuroscience/Interpersonal Neurobiology(IPNB); Emotion Focused Therapy) and is artfully integrated with family systems, interpersonal, solution-focused, and existential perspectives. Katie believes that evidence-based approaches are an essential foundation to any therapeutic process because they have been rigorously studied for efficacy; they provide a goal-oriented healing process; and they provide clients with concrete skills for hope and recovery.

One of Katie’s personal values is to continue to grow both in her personal and professional life. One of the ways she is currently facilitating her own growth is by studying relational neuroscience and the neurobiology of attachment through an immersive training program geared toward helping parents of struggling children/teens. Her current couples and family work is based in family systems and Emotion Focused Therapy, and the Gottman Method. Katie focuses her continued education on couples, parenting, families, teenagers, and eating disorder recovery. She is holistic and progressive in her treatment approach and will continue to push forward as the field of psychology, counseling, and coaching grows and incorporates research-based evidence for how healing and growth can best be supported!

 

Katie Windham is a clinician and the owner of Solstice. Before establishing Solstice, she was one of the lead clinicians, founders, and co-owner of a well-established practice in Wilmington, NC. She has over 17 years of licensed clinical experience in the field of counseling psychology and over 20 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families in a variety of settings. Katie has spent these years working with adults, adolescents, children, and families with a broad range of psychological and relational concerns at all levels of care.. She has extensive experience in the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety/mood disorders, substance abuse/other addictive processes, adolescent issues, anger management, relationship and parenting concerns and unresolved grief and trauma.

Katie’s diverse work experience afforded her the opportunity to hone her clinical expertise. She began her clinical work in a residential treatment setting for women with eating disorders, chemical dependency, and unresolved trauma. While working in this setting she developed and facilitated trauma education and trauma informed process groups, and assisted many women and families to begin their journey to recovery. Katie is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and maintains independent licenses (LCMHC and LPC) in both North Carolina and Mississippi. She is also a LCMHC Approved-Supervisor in North Carolina and supervises mental health clinicians (LCMHCA) working toward licensure, as well as clinicians looking for peer consultation.