Kate is a Clinical Psychologist serving children and families across all aspects of the parenting journey. Kate formally worked in academic medical centers as a Supervising Psychologist and Director of Research as part of an integrated behavioral health programs. Her clinical areas of expertise include infant mental health and early childhood development; child maltreatment; and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She formally served as a Healthy Steps Specialist, providing developmental screenings and ongoing parental support, guidance, and intervention for children and their caregivers ages 0-5. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Parent-Infant Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospitals Child and Family Institute, where she assessed and provided relationship-based psychotherapy to children and their caregivers ages 0-5. While a predoctoral intern at Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center, she received specialized training in infant mental health and empirically supported dyadic interventions. She currently provides psychotherapy to individuals along all points of the parenting journey, from the planning stages of beginning a family to supporting parents in the early years of their children’s’ lives. With specialized training in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, infant mental health, and early childhood development, and a deep theoretical understanding of parent-child relationships, she can provide a unique level of support for those having or anticipating struggling during the adjustment period. Individually or as a family, she can help you through logistics, learn to manage stress, and process the complex feelings that arise as your family grows. Into the postpartum period, she also provides support to individuals and/or families navigating the challenges of raising young children. She can offer informal developmental evaluations and guidance on the best ways to promote all aspects of your child’s development. She can also provide strategies to deal with some of the most common difficulties such as sleeping and bedtime routines, feeding difficulties, tantrums and defiance, stranger and/or separation anxiety, adjustment to family changes, among others. She can help you learn new ways to parent more empathically and effectively by understanding your child’s inner world and explore what you bring as a parent to each interaction.