Kathryn Starratt, LICSW

Kathryn Starratt is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in New Hampshire with 24 years of clinical experience working with adults, couples, families, adolescents, children, and groups. Her background includes work in Emergency Services and Community Mental Health, and extensive experience supporting families formed through adoption and foster care. This range of settings has informed a practical, strengths-oriented approach to care that honors each person’s unique story.

Kathryn creates a non-judgmental, caring, and respectful space where individuals and families can explore identity, relationships, and life transitions. She emphasizes a person-centered foundation, believing that people possess resilience and the capacity for meaningful growth when offered curiosity, empathy, and genuine attention. Kathryn blends evidence-based techniques with life-experience informed common sense, and she often incorporates compassion and a touch of humor into the therapeutic process.

Her work addresses stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, LGBT issues, parenting, intimacy-related matters, career challenges, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Therapeutic methods Kathryn uses may include strength-based work, cognitive behavioral strategies, solution-focused techniques, trauma-focused interventions, and psychoeducation. She is committed to partnering with clients as they move toward greater understanding, healing, and day-to-day coping.