About Katie
Katie Dean is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with three years of therapy experience and a decade of background in case management and human services. She focuses on helping people heal from trauma and regain a sense of emotional control. Katie is practical and straightforward in sessions and aims to make therapy feel manageable for overwhelmed parents and individuals.
Katie helps people process trauma and rebuild confidence after painful experiences.
How Katie works
She supports those dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy worries, and self-esteem concerns. She also addresses related issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, and isolation. Her work includes attention to mood and personality disorders, post-traumatic stress, and sexual concerns like compulsive sexual behavior and sexual dysfunction.
Katie also provides support around women’s issues and the guilt and shame that can follow traumatic events. She focuses on concrete skills people can use between sessions. In sessions she aims to listen first, then offer clear tools and steps people can try.
Conversations are practical and paced to the person’s needs. Katie emphasizes building resilience, strengthening communication, and increasing emotional awareness. To begin, she asks straightforward questions about current struggles and goals.
From there she and the client choose approaches and techniques that fit the situation and life demands. Her goal is steady progress and usable skills that make daily life easier.
What Katie works with
The areas below are the ones Katie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Katie uses evidence-based techniques that focus on processing trauma and restoring daily functioning. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral work helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and learn new coping skills to reduce distress after traumatic events. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing involves guided techniques to help reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories and make them easier to manage in everyday life.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Katie will discuss goals, symptoms, and personal preferences and then collaborate with the client to try approaches that match those needs. She checks in along the way and adjusts methods if something isn’t working or feels too intense.
Online therapy lets people access consistent care without long travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady progress.
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