Katie Clay - Wakefield, LCMHC

Katie Clay - Wakefield earned her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2009 and has spent her career primarily in community mental health. With 18 years of experience, she now focuses on supporting women who are navigating transitional chapters of life and seeking clarity, validation, and direction. Her work with midlife women confronting perimenopause, shifting family roles, workplace challenges, and aging relatives has been especially meaningful to her. She centers care on caregivers - helping them rediscover creativity, set clearer boundaries, use their voices, and make intentional choices aligned with what they truly need.

Katie brings a style that is honest, compassionate, and candid, often mixed with warmth and humor to make the therapeutic journey more approachable. She values transparency in the therapeutic relationship so clients quickly sense her commitment to their progress and to celebrating growth alongside them. At the same time, she holds space when change feels overwhelming.

Early sessions prioritize getting to know the client story - what prompted the decision to seek therapy and which parts of personal history may connect to current challenges. Katie is invested in helping clients explore relationships, parenting concerns, self-esteem, career questions, attachment patterns, body image, alternative sexuality including BDSM and kink, and the search for meaning and self-love. She is licensed as an LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Support

Katie integrates movement-oriented and clinical counseling methods to help clients explore emotions, behavior, and life transitions. Dance/movement therapy uses body movement as a way to access and express feelings that can be hard to name, which can be especially helpful for clients processing major life shifts, body image concerns, or caregiver stress.

Her training in clinical mental health counseling supports traditional talk-based work that focuses on identifying patterns, developing coping strategies, and making intentional choices in relationships, parenting, career, and self-esteem. She also brings an attachment-informed perspective to address relational patterns and trust, which can be useful for clients working through intimacy, isolation, or alternative sexual culture concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Katie collaborates with each client to determine which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds so the work feels relevant and manageable.

Online therapy with Katie offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, accommodate caregiving responsibilities, and maintain continuity of care across life changes while working with a licensed professional.