Kate Kelly

Director, MA, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C

Experience

Founder and director of The Center for Family Well-Being and creator of Girls In Tune,™ the Center's signature mind-body group program. More than 20 years of experience as an individual and group psychotherapist in both private practice and school-based settings.

Therapeutic Focus

I work with kids, teens, young adults, and families in individual and group therapy settings. I specialize in working with anxiety and with highly sensitive kids, teens, and young adults. I also work with many clients with depression, ADHD, self-regulation (emotional and behavioral) challenges, distinct learning styles, chronic illness, grief and loss, trauma, and issues of identity and transition across the life span.

Philosophy

I merge my psychotherapy skills with a passion for mindful awareness practice — with the goal of assisting each person and family I work with to fully realize their potential with confidence, understanding, and an open heart. Each therapeutic method I offer is an opening for greater awareness, connection, and well-being within ourselves and with others around us.

Professional Highlights

MA, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C
Licensed clinical social worker
Trained in multiple therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, compassion-focused therapy, mindful awareness and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and body-based therapies; play, art, and sand therapy and brain-based relational therapies informed by neuroscience, including Brainspotting

Education

Graduate of Smith College School for Social Work
Advanced training from the Washington School of Psychiatry
Graduate Radiant Child 200 hr. yoga teacher training
Student of Kashmir Shavism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Western phenomenology with several years of intensive study with Rudy and Sharon Bauer at The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies