Katie Light

Katie Light is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Kansas and brings seven years of experience as a social worker, therapist, case manager, and client advocate. She draws on a wide range of clinical skills developed while working in varied settings, including a psychiatric hospital, a community mental health center, an outpatient addiction rehabilitation program, a domestic violence shelter advocacy role, and group homes serving people with disabilities.

Katie focuses her work on adults and young adults and approaches each person by building on their existing strengths. She commonly uses solution-focused brief therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and EMDR, and she tailors or combines approaches to fit each client’s needs.

Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, LGBTQ issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related problems, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career-related difficulties, coping with life transitions, coaching, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Katie has a particular passion for helping people heal from trauma. She understands that traumatic experiences can affect functioning in many ways - for example through depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms, anger, addictive behaviors, isolation, or rapid mood shifts - and she works to support clients through their recovery. She believes trauma can be addressed and recovery is possible.

She is licensed in Missouri as a clinical social worker (license number 2020013864) and in Kansas as a specialist clinical social worker and a clinical addictions counselor (license number 5126). For more information, Katie maintains a Psychology Today profile at https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/935408.