https://www.bloomtherapyreno.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61fc8a38d6c98f600c3cea89/59febab5-db3c-4bfb-bd89-df31e8770b7f/ACS-0287.JPG Home - My clients are hardworking, successful, and detail oriented and suffering deeply from anxiety, perfectionism, isolation, self-doubt and a harsh, never satisfied inner critic. The people I work with often feel a great deal of pressure to mask what’s really going on inside for fear everything will fall apart if they take even a small break from holding everything together. It’s exhausting and not sustainable. It doesn’t have to keep feeling so hard. What worked back then may not be working any longer, and I can help you sort through the pieces figure out how to move forward with deeper meaning and a greater sense of peace and purpose. I am a certified EMDR therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner trained through Intermediate 2. I’m also trained in Brainspotting, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and integrate Internal Family Systems practices across my work. In addition to traditional 50 minute appointments, I offer therapy intensives, which allow for accelerated healing in an extended session format. I have extensive training in attachment trauma and helping my clients past difficult patterns and stubborn stuck points as well as all issues pertaining to perinatal mental health. I am a neurodiversity affirming clinician and particularly enjoy working with late-identified ADHD and autistic women. https://www.bloomtherapyreno.com/about-me daily 0.75 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61fc8a38d6c98f600c3cea89/a8024d1e-370c-4c14-a69e-f9c40d0057ea/ACS-0289.JPG Meet Kate This is where I’m meant to be: connecting with you, helping you grow through difficulty and heal your deepest wounds so you can live authentically. I love this work. EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, Ketamine Assisted, Internal Family Systems integrative therapy. https://www.bloomtherapyreno.com/therapyformoms daily 0.75 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61fc8a38d6c98f600c3cea89/794c6e88-ee27-44b1-ba0d-a94f14f01180/IMG-1690.jpg Therapy for Moms - You do a lot of work nobody notices. You might feel a flicker of resentment when you’re asked to do yet another thing, or feel guilty when you don’t parent how you want to because you’re so overloaded. Even in the rare moment alone, you find it hard to relax because there’s just always so much that needs to be done. You might find yourself trying to avoid recreating difficult dynamics from your own upbringing and be completely frazzled trying to do all the right things all the time and when you don’t? Oof. The words you say to yourself are harsh and unforgiving. I love working with moms (by the way, I’m talking anybody who identifies as a mother, trans moms and non-binary folks enthusiastically included) because one day you’re not a mom and the next day you are, and this time of rapid transformation opens up uparalleled time for growth and self-discovery (but it’s not always comfortable). The issues that most often come up in my sessions with moms are navigating complicated family relationships, managing overwhelm, exploring expectations for self/partner/children, exploring complicated feelings about childhood experiences (which we often think we’ve “dealt with” but then come roaring back to the surface when we have our own children), childhood trauma, anxiety about parenting, parent skills coaching (I’m a big fan of Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Becky Kennedy), marriage dynamics, how to maintain sense of self amidst a demanding season of life, and more. Trust me: you’re not alone in how you’re feeling. Having a therapist who is in the trenches with you means you won’t get any judgment for me. Just support, empathy, and help figuring out how to get your ship pointed in the direction you want. You may know exactly where you want to start, or you may just know something doesn’t feel right and you want to feel better. Just show up. We’ll figure the rest out together. https://www.bloomtherapyreno.com/postpartumdepressionandanxiety daily 0.75 2024-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61fc8a38d6c98f600c3cea89/dd285ebb-190b-432a-af55-425c34c7d0ed/IMG-1689.jpg Postpartum Depression and Anxiety This isn’t what you expected. You’re overwhelmed, short-tempered, anxious, and just don’t feel like yourself. Maybe you’re crying a lot and the smallest things set you off. Maybe you feel like nobody gets it, or you wonder whether you ruined everything by having a baby. You can’t sleep even when you have the opportunity because you have to keep checking that the baby’s breathing and your thoughts are spinning a million miles an hour. You’re having terrifying intrusive thoughts and you wonder if there’s something wrong with you because how you’re feeling now definitely isn’t what you expected to feel when you became a mom. Been there. It sucks. We can make it better. Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth. I suspect postpartum anxiety is even more common than the stats present, but somehow we’ve normalized so many of the symptoms as part of the postpartum experience that it can be really hard to tell what’s normal and what needs some care. I remember thinking, “Well, nobody sleeps after they’ve had a baby. Everybody worries about their baby. Statistically, the first year after a baby is the least happy year in a marriage—it’s normal that we’re fighting all the time. I don’t really want to be around people but it’s just because I’m an introvert. It’s okay that I’m not feeling bonded—that’ll come later. Maybe I just don’t like newborns. This will pass if I just give it time. I can’t have postpartum depression and anxiety; I’m a mental health professional! I know the things! That can’t be what’s going on.” Nope. Nobody is immune. Postpartum depression and anxiety are not reflections of your worth as a mother and they are not your fault. So much of this is a roll of the dice and you deserve care and effective support to help you feel better (and you CAN feel better). Postpartum depression and anxiety can look a lot of ways. Some of the questions I explore with clients are: Can you sleep when given the opportunity? If not, what’s making that difficult? Do you feel like yourself? Like the things that used to make you happy still do? Are you feeling so overwhelmed that it feels like you won’t ever feel normal again? Do you feel like your baby might be better off with a better mom? Are you feeling way more irritable or angry than normal, like the smallest things can send you into a rage? Do you feel hopeless, empty, numb? Is it feeling extra hard to concentrate or make decisions? Do you feel like you’ve lost connection to yourself? Does it feel like your thoughts are going a mile a minute and you can’t stop them from spinning? Are you experiencing scary, intrusive thoughts of something bad happening to your baby or you doing something awful? Do you feel like you’re constantly thinking about everything that needs to get done and it’s hard to sit down? Are you checking that you did things like turning off the oven, locking the door, whether the baby’s breathing? Is your appetite off? Are you having unexplained physical symptoms like headaches, stomachaches, joint pain, unexplained lethargy? Does it just feel like something’s not right, even if you can’t quite pinpoint what it is? Postpartum depression and anxiety don’t “just go away” over time. They are real complications from pregnancy and postpartum. Just like you would get treatment if you developed gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, organ prolapse, or an infection in your incision, your mental health deserves real treatment. Mental/emotional struggles are not a moral failure. They are common, human and treatable. My heart is in helping moms get through this and feel like themselves again. Like they can enjoy their baby, feel confident in their new role, feel connected and supported and hopeful. Life can feel good again, I promise. Let me help you get there. https://www.bloomtherapyreno.com/trauma daily 0.75 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61fc8a38d6c98f600c3cea89/e61193be-ca42-41ad-bd08-0dcd13c6d688/IMG-1696.jpg Trauma Therapy Our systems are brilliant at figuring out how to adapt to our circumstances. This ability to adapt is critical to our survival, and I’m perpetually in awe of the ways we find to keep going. However, as we move through life, our brains are understandably reluctant to give up adaptations that have worked—after all, our strongest instinct is survival. Why would our brain give up an adaptation that worked? It makes sense on a deep level to keep doing whatever adaptation protected us back then. But when “back then” has passed, we often find these adaptations creating all kinds of problems. Difficulty with trust, feeling you have to do everything yourself, feeling unworthy or disconnected, experiencing pervasive and stubborn anxiety, never being able to relax, beating yourself up every time you do something imperfectly human, compulsively overworking. These patterns are often tied to the adaptations that once helped keep you safe, and they might need an update. People who show up in my office have often tried therapy and other self-healing methods before but found no amount of learning or logic helps them shift the feelings held in their core. They know all the reasons they shouldn’t be feeling the way they are, but knowing isn’t always enough to create change. We have lots of beautiful, effective ways to help you get unstuck. I’m a certified EMDR therapist and use this framework to inform the entire treatment process. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, has a strong body of evidence showing its efficacy for helping us process and move past stuck memories. EMDR allows us to go deeper than traditional talk therapy to target the stuck memories directly, often achieving deeper healing much more quickly than talk therapy. It is important to note that EMDR is effective even when clients don’t come in with explicit memories to work on, so don’t worry if this is you; we can still do the work. In addition to EMDR therapy, I practice Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems informed therapy. Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy uses low-dose ketamine to help ease some of the defensive patterns that can block or slow down therapy while also promoting neuroplasticity to support increased flexibility and ability to access different perspectives. Brainspotting is a modality related to EMDR that allows us to access the networks in our brains holding the stubborn emotions, thoughts, memories and somatic sensations in a gentle, effective way. Somatic Experiencing is a body-based therapy that helps resolve symptoms of stress and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. Internal Family Systems uses the concept of parts of self to pursue self-understanding, reduction of internal-conflict, increased self-compassion and ultimately, an increased sense of inner calm and control. All of these modalities blend together beautifully so we can support you exactly where you are. In addition to weekly or biweekly 50 minute appointments, I offer therapy intensives, which incorporate all of the above modalities in a 3-4 hour session. These can be used as an adjunct to our normal appointments or as a stand-alone therapy. 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