Katie Christian

About

Katie is a Clinical Therapist with Valley Health Outpatient Behavioral Health. She studied psychology at the College of William & Mary and later graduated with her master’s degree in counseling and human development, with a concentration in clinical mental health, from George Mason University. Her clinical experience includes working with individuals in a residential setting with substance use disorder, and various co-occurring disorders, including PTSD, depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, and eating disorders. She is certified in horse-inspired growth and healing and horse-inspired psychotherapy through Big Heart Ranch in Malibu.

Katie employs an assortment of therapeutic concepts, models, and techniques to assist her patients and clients in their introspective work and in cultivating methods for growth, including assessing mental perspectives and patterns, documenting impactful and emotional experiences, and identifying unhelpful or counterproductive behaviors and habits. She then analyzes the connection between those elements to successfully build new, healthful and heartful patterns of thinking and being. She strives to offer a healing space that provides a balance of acceptance and encouragement to give her patients the safety that they need to fully explore themselves, their ways of being, and the possibilities for change and growth.