Katie Clay - Wakefield , LCMHC

Katie Clay - Wakefield draws on movement-informed counseling and clinical mental health experience to help women navigating transitions. She focuses on practical choices and clear next steps. Her style is direct, warm, and often humorous, which helps soften hard conversations and build trust quickly.

She has 18 years of experience, with an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling earned in 2009. Much of her work has been in community mental health settings, where she learned to support people facing complex everyday stresses.

Katie concentrates on midlife concerns, including perimenopause, changing family roles, and career shifts. She supports people who are caring for others and who need strategies to set boundaries, protect their time, and reconnect with their own needs. She also addresses relationship worries, self-esteem, body image, and questions of life purpose.

Sessions are conversational and practical. The first meeting focuses on what led someone to seek help and which life experiences might be connected to current struggles. She uses honesty, compassion, and occasional humor to make space for both hard feelings and small wins.

Katie also works with topics that are less often discussed openly, such as attachment patterns and aspects of alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink. Her aim is to help people make intentional choices that reflect what they truly want, rather than what others expect of them.

Approaches that guide online sessions and goals

Katie uses movement-informed counseling alongside clinical mental health techniques to help people reconnect with what they want and make tangible changes. Movement-informed work can include attention to body sensations, posture, and gentle movement to help name feelings and shift stuck patterns; it often helps with body image, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.

Clinical mental health counseling emphasizes talk-based strategies to clarify values, set boundaries, and plan next steps. This practical approach supports people facing career shifts, caregiving stress, midlife transitions, and relationship questions by identifying doable strategies and experimenting with small changes between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily realities, and preferences, and then shape sessions to fit those needs. Clients and therapist collaborate to try methods that feel useful and adjust as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper connection, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or times when writing feels more natural. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity during transitions.