Katarina Wittekind

My Story

 I come from a long line of healers: mothers, nurses, therapists, and faith workers. I have always been drawn towards spaces where I can accompany people on their journey of change, growth, healing, and self-exploration, which is how I came to find myself in this profession. 

I received my bachelor's degree in Social Work from Warren Wilson College in 2015 and my Masters in Social Work from Western Carolina University in 2020. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and have over a decade of experience working with adults living with mental health challenges. 

I am a queer identifying and queer affirming therapist. I work with people across the spectrum of identities relating to gender, sexuality, religion, class, race, relationship structure, neurodiversity, age, and ability. 

I believe that we all need support throughout our lives to help us discover more of who we are and who we want to be. We are constantly navigating that push and pull between the two, and I feel grateful that I am able to create a space with my clients where we can play with that. 

I approach my work with a sense of curiosity and creativity, drawing inspiration from a variety of different modalities and approaches, because we are not one size fits all. 

I have completed Beginning I and Beginning II of the Somatic Experiencing (SE) training, and I operate from the lens that we all hold trauma, emotion, and experience in our bodies. I find that there is great power in accessing healing through our nervous systems, and it may be a good fit for you if you have found that talk therapy has not fully touched what you are struggling with. 

I also draw upon more cognitive approaches that help people make values-based decisions (ACT), learn tools to support better communication, boundaries, and emotional regulation in relationships (DBT and Attachment Theory), and learn how to decrease the intensity and frequency of OCD symptoms (ERP). 

I love utilizing nature in my work and offer walk and talk therapy in addition to virtual and in-office sessions. My work is a reflection of how I support myself in the world, having seen it work. On my off time, you can find me in the woods or on a mountain top, swimming, dancing, eating wild blueberries, cuddling my cats, and sharing homemade food with friends and strangers that become friends. 

Modality Acronyms 

SE: Somatic Experiencing 

ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 

DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy 

ERP: Exposure and Response Prevention 

I specialize in:

• Somatic Therapy 

• Identity Exploration 

• OCD 

• Trauma 

• Relationships 

• Grief