Katie Light, LCSW, LSCSW

Katie Light is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW) with seven years of experience in mental health work. She has worked as a social worker, therapist, case manager, and client advocate across settings. Her practice focuses on adults and young adults dealing with stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, mood concerns, addictions, and anger among other issues.

She draws on experience from psychiatric hospitals, community mental health centers, outpatient addiction programs, domestic violence advocacy, and group homes. That background means she has sat with crises, discharge planning, and longer term outpatient care. She aims to build on a person’s strengths and practical skills rather than only talking about problems.

In sessions she mixes approaches to suit the person in front of her. Katie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and mindfulness techniques. She describes herself as flexible about methods and willing to try different tools until something fits.

Clients can expect focused, skills-based work. That might include looking at thoughts and behaviors, practicing distress tolerance skills from DBT, or processing traumatic memories with EMDR when appropriate. She also addresses practical issues like sleep, parenting strain, or workplace stress alongside deeper emotional patterns.

Katie pays particular attention to trauma and how it shows up - in anger, mood swings, isolation, or substance use. She helps people name those patterns and develop steps to manage them. To begin, the site’s matching process is used to schedule an initial session and talk about goals.

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