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Telephone (831) 278-3716
Email hello@katiedutcher.com
Website www.katiedutcher.com/therapy
Pronouns she/her

Office Address Sessions via telehealth and eco-therapy outdoors; outdoor locations are selected based on clients' need
Office Hours Call or email to inquire about scheduling

License AMFT #152722
Supervisor Israel Perla, LMFT #43965
Fees $150 for 50 minute session; please ask about sliding scale availability

I offer trauma-informed therapy for adults, teens, and couples throughout California, and eco-therapy in the Monterey area. I'm a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist working under the supervision of a licensed clinician, utilizing Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and humanistic, psychodynamic, and somatic approaches. I seek to offer a warm and supportive space while helping you explore the deeper patterns and past experiences that may be shaping your present. With mindfulness and body awareness woven throughout our work, I’ll support you in healing, self-discovery, and reconnecting with yourself in ways that feel more at ease, whole, grounded, and alive. In addition to my training as a therapist, I am a Qualified Teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a Certified Mindful Outdoor Guide, and am in training as a qigong teacher. I bring a background in mindfulness, nature connection, and trauma-informed care to our work together, and am experienced in teaching practices that support present moment awareness, nervous system regulation, and self-compassion.

Clinical Approach
My approach is warm, intuitive, and collaborative—rooted in presence, curiosity, and respect for your unique process. From our first sessions together, my intention is to help you feel safe and seen. I believe that each one of us is the expert in our own experience, and my aim is to “get” you—to understand as much as I can about what you’re experiencing and feeling, and for you to feel my understanding and compassion. This connection is the foundation of a therapeutic relationship that supports you in being vulnerable and authentic, which in turn is the basis for growth. To this work, I bring curiosity, openness, presence, sensitivity, empathy, and a wish to be of service. I also bring myself and my history, which includes grief, career transitions, and experience in working with my own patterns of anxiety, people-pleasing, and self-judgement. In other words, I continue to work with some of the same things you do, and I hope to normalize emotions and thoughts that can feel isolating. In my own life, one of my main desires is to see clearly in service of growth, even when growth feels painful or frightening.

Areas of clinical work
Navigating life transitions and new identities Grief and loss Religious trauma Trauma and PTSD Relationship issues Self Esteem, boundaries, people-pleasing Perfectionism Stress, burnout, recovery from toxic work environment Anxiety Spirituality Chronic Illness Reconnecting with yourself Deepening connection with the natural world.

Modalities
Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eco-Therapy, Mindfulness and Meditation, Solutions-Focused, and Somatic.