Katie Idell

Katie Idell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with advanced credentials including MA, NCC, and LPC, and she holds deep respect for the strength and courage it takes for individuals to seek support. She sees this as a testament to their resilience. In her therapeutic practice, Katie aims to cultivate a collaborative relationship with her clients, characterized by support, compassion, validation, and genuine connection. One of her core values is to meet clients where they are in their journey, fostering an environment that enhances emotional safety. Katie employs a gentle, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive approach, ensuring that therapy progresses at the individual’s pace. She specializes in areas such as codependency, childhood emotional neglect, trauma, anxiety, depression, and challenging family dynamics, particularly focusing on highly sensitive individuals. With training from the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia and her background as a yoga teacher and mindfulness practitioner, Katie incorporates somatic and holistic techniques into her therapeutic work. Together with her clients, she strives to build stabilization and create shifts at the nervous system level, guiding them towards increased emotional safety and self-exploration. Her overarching goal is to support clients in integrating their mind, body, emotions, and spirit, empowering them to express their most authentic selves.