Kathryn Slater
MSSW, LICSW Clinical Social Worker
Welcome. I work with women across the lifespan from adolescence to end of life. I walk through transitions, aging, menopause and life planning with my clients with creativity and kindness. I'm inspired by the courage and creativity women hold and seek to help my clients find their strengths and build the life they hope for. My tool box is eclectic and deep from over twenty five years of practice in a variety of settings, meaning we have many ways to get the work done together. Many of my clients arrive carrying the weight of trauma, mood instability, anxiety, or huge life transitions such as facing decisions about a marriage, a career change or a big loss.
Services
Life's challenges take us down many roads, and we can approach yours through several routes....let's talk and see what feels right for you. To provide the most consistent availability, all sessions are via encrypted, private telehealth platform.
I am credentialed with most major insurance companies and those will be billed
weekly if you would like. Many women choose cash pay as a means to work outside the third-party payor arena for privacy and to reduce pathology. All payments - copays or
self-pay payments - for sessions are due at time of service.
Sliding scale payments may be available for cash paying clients - just
let me know and we can discuss what the options are.
Individual Psychotherapy
Working one on one allows us to work at a client centered pace with the approach that works best for you. Some approaches we might utilize include trauma informed relational work, solution focused work, narrative therapies, or cognitive
behavioral therapies.
Owning Our Stories Project
Women's Intensive Workshops
This is intentional, reflective work - grounded in a trauma- informed understanding of how people and relationships actually function. Here we will explore:
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relational patterns
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the impact of trauma on identity and connection
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the meaning we have made of our experiences
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and what it looks like to related to our stories with more awareness and choice.
You won't find quick fixes here. But you will find space to think more clearly, to feel less alone in what you are noticing, and to begin relating to yourself with more context and less self-blame.
to join the waitlist for our next Women's Workshop!
Sports Performance Coaching
Are you hoping to overcome those pregame nerves or fear, improve focus or performance? As flight or fight creatures our brains can work for or against us and with training, you can use those butterflies for your advantage, and I can help.
Areas of Expertise
Women's Mental Health
Women face unique challenges throughout their lifetimes and yet often hold great strengths and resources we can use together in the work. Learn to use your strengths, your own voice and vision to create the life you want.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy simply means we explore your thoughts, your stories, your ways of thinking and help you develop more successful ways of thinking, self talk, strategies that lead to improved coping strategies and interpretations of experiences. We really are what we think and say - we can help that feel better.
Trauma, Mood Disorders and Stress
Living a life shut down by the weight of trauma, depression, chronic stress or fears can be debilitating. Working together we can help resolve these barriers to your wellness, happiness and peace. Over the past 25+ years, Kay has helped hundreds of women work through these challenges and create a life they love using a deep and eclectic tool box developed over almost 3 decades of work in various mental health settings - inpatient, outpatient, community health and private practice.
Contact Me
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato
I'm glad you've stopped by my virtual space. Email is the best way to first connect and I'm happy to have a short phone conversation to see if we might be a good team. If so, I'll look forward to sharing in your journey.
- Kathryn (Kay) Slater LICSW
Harwich, Massachusetts
Telephone:
774-212-0639