Kathryn Tinich, MA, LPC

People find their way to counseling for a lot of different reasons. For some folks, a recent event may have changed the way life was going, and some support in navigating a new normal can help. For some, counseling can be a place to explore a specific area or goal in a life that overall feels like it’s working just fine. For others, life may have felt unmanageable, disconnected, or out of control for a long time. Therapy can be a place to witness and hold and heal pain from the past and present, a place to start to imagine and create a different kind of future. It’s a vulnerable and brave thing to want something different, and to reach out for help.

Many of the people who work with me have brains/ nervous systems that work a little -or a lot- differently from the typical. Whether inherent neurobiology (ADHD, Autism, AuDHD) or trauma or both, many of the clients who sit, move, and play in my office come with the secondary pain of feeling different, and the beliefs about self and the world that can show up when feeling like an outsider has been a part of a person’s experience.

Working with me is a collaborative thing. You know the terrain of your experience and are the expert of your own life. I can bring a wider and sometimes different perspective to the ways you might be seeing and feeling what is happening. There is power in getting to be human with another human, in being seen as a pathway to better seeing oneself. I believe that the core of a person is never the problem to be fixed, and that patterns that have needed to evolve to survive can change when seen and felt and understood. I look forward to meeting you.