Meet Kate Shepard
**Administrator Note: New for 2024 – Kate is pursuing an additional license certification and out-of-network reimbursement will not be available for her clients. Therefore, she is reducing her rate from $235/hr down to $145/hr. This will pertain to all 2024 new clients. She will honor this rate for as long as you continue in therapy with her, even after her rates go back up.**
Kate Shepard has over 14 years of experience working in various clinical and non-clinical spaces helping individuals, families, couples, groups, executives, and organizations understand their patterns, navigate conflict, and build deeper connections. Her style involves humor and is aimed at helping couples realize that wherever they are, they aren’t alone.
“My approach to counseling couples is to amplify the good and slowly remove the barriers that keep people from coming together to share it. I believe that…
most people genuinely want to experience passionate, supportive, loving, connected, long-lasting marriages but that over time mistakes, inadvertent injuries, conflict, and the stress of day-to-day life make it hard to show up for our partners…and hard for our partner to show up for us. My approach is to identify and solve for the interactions that pull a couple apart rather than “fix” one member of the relationship.
My work is informed by many different clinical styles including Internal Family Systems, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory and others – all with the goal of finding which tools and frameworks help a couple see where they get stuck. In that way, I work with my couples to co-create a therapeutic style that resonates for them.”
Specialties
Marital & Premarital
Relationship Issues
Conflict Resolution
Intimacy
Communication
Sexless/Withdrawn
Affair & Infidelity Recovery
Family Systems & Life Changes
Education & Experience
- MSW, University of Maryland
- 14 years of serving individuals, couples, and families
Trainings, Certifications, and Continuing Education
- The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Differentiation, Attachment, and Brain Science (Year Long Intensive, Couples Institute)
- Healing Trauma in Couples Therapy: Two Contrasting Approaches
- Last Chance Couple, Peter Fraenkel
- Couples and Their Careers, Alexandra Solomon
- From Pain to Pleasure: Erotic Recovery in Trauma Healing, Esther Perel
- Breakthrough Results with Difficult Men: Terry Real on Working with Narcissists, Bullies, Boy-Men, and Avoidants
- IFS Immersion: Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications
- Expressive Arts Therapy: Creative Solutions for Trauma Recovery
- Reproductive Trauma, Infertility and Loss
- Integrative Attachment Family Therapy for Oppositional Behaviors
- Polyvagal Theory in Action, Deb Dana
Kate is pursuing an additional license certification and thereby offering a reduced rate from her normal $235/hr for all 2024 clients. Out-of-network reimbursement is not available for Kate Shepard.
Fee range: $145
Out-of-network insurance reimbursable? No
Payment accepted Cash, Check, Amex, Discover, MC, Visa, Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
We work hard to make quality therapy affordable. click here to learn more about our fees and reimbursement.
