KATE ETTINGER
Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kate Ettinger, MS, AMFT #137050
EFT Couples Therapist
Kate firmly believes that the quality of our most intimate relationships is one of the most significant contributing factors to our quality of life. For this reason, she is passionately committed to helping her clients repair and strengthen these relationships, so that they can withstand the pressures of life and the stress that often accompanies change and transition.
For couples, the ultimate goal of therapy is a resilient, secure, and trusting relationship where both partners can grow, evolve, and come together as they journey through life. For individuals, Kate helps her clients to better understand how they show up in relationships, and to address and shift the relational behaviors that may be standing in the way of building resilient, healthy, long-lasting relationships.
Kate likes to work creatively and collaboratively with her clients, and takes a strengths-based, non-pathologizing approach to therapy and mental health in general. She is staunchly LGBTQIA+ affirmative and welcomes clients from many diverse backgrounds, and she is comfortable working with clients who identify as non-monogamous. Kate's has a particular affinity for working with creatives and those who make a living in the arts.
Licensure
- Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #137050
Education
- Antioch University, Masters in Clinical Psychology
- Marriage Family Therapy Specialty
- Oberlin College, Bachelor in Music Composition
Work Experience
- Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee, Hillside Wellness Center
Additional Training
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Core Skills, 48 hour Extended Version
- Completed 2023, Trainer: Scott Wooley
- This 4-5 months training experience involves four 12 hr sessions scheduled four to five weeks apart. Each session is designed for a small group of participants (8 – 15) to explore and refine the primary skills used in the EFT model. Each session will include practical instruction, experiential exercises, video examples, and case consultation totaling 48 hours of EFT consultation and is a pre-requisite for Certification.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship
- Completed 2023, Trainer: Scott Wooley
- The Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a 28 hr. 4 day training in EFT and a pre-requisite for all other trainings and certification. It includes an overview of all aspects of the model including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples.
- Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy Attachment-based Interventions for Couples in Crisis
- This is a 16.75 CE hour course which introduces clinicians to EFT interventions, steps & stages of the model and applications for working with sexuality, affairs, trauma and difficult couple presentations. This training primes clinicians for completing EFT Externship and Core Skills trainings to achieve full certification.
Therapy Experience
As an EFT therapist, Kate's approach is rooted predominantly in Attachment Theory, though she has received training in humanistic, existential, and psychodynamic approaches as well.
Kate is currently working towards completing certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Emotionally Focused Therapy is one of the most effective couples therapy approaches to date. Certification in EFT requires hundreds of hours of supervised couples therapy, which is then reviewed and approved by The International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Kate participates in weekly clinical EFT supervision by practice owner and certified EFT Supervisor, Haleigh Butler, to ensure the best care possible for her clients. Kate also attends multiple EFT trainings annually to continue to hone her skills and stay up to date with the model.
