Wildwood Counseling + Consulting

Rooted in Nature

Grounded in Growth

Life can be messy and complicated; growth doesn’t happen in straight lines.

Get ready for your next chapter!

Wildwood is a place to be authentically and imperfectly human. You are worthy of being seen, heard, and understood. At Wildwood, you will be challenged; you will dig deep; you will have failures that blossom into successes; you will grow, and Wildwood is here to support you, guide you, teach you, and walk with you into your next chapter.

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Services

Therapy Sessions are available online or as a Walk-n-Talk local to Eagle River, AK.

In network with most insurances// Cash Pay welcome

Initial Assessment/Diagnostic Eval ~60 Min+

$350

Intake ~60 Min+

$275

Individual Psychotherapy ~30-60-minute sessions ~$125-$200

No Show/ Cancellation/ Reschedule

$75 if cancelled within 24 hours of scheduled session.

New to Therapy?

Therapy Didn’t “Work” Before?

Choosing the Right Type of Therapy Based on Your Needs and Goals

Therapy isn’t about picking a “right” or “wrong” method — it’s about matching the work to what you’re actually trying to learn or navigate, change, understand, or heal. Most people move between different modes of therapy over time, depending on what life is asking of them. Here’s how you can think about which approach fits where you need it to- or blend them together.

🔗 Case Management — When you need coordination, advocacy, and support navigating complex needs

Case Management is the structured, relational, and strategic process of helping you navigate complex needs by coordinating services, advocating for resources, and ensuring continuity of care. It’s about making sure the practical pieces of your life and treatment plan actually work together.

Choose case management when you need:

  • Help connecting to community resources or support programs

  • Coordination between providers, agencies, or services

  • Advocacy for housing, financial, medical, or social needs

  • Support managing multiple systems (legal, medical, educational, etc.)

  • A partner who helps you stay organized and supported across your care

Case management is the stability phase — making sure the real‑world logistics support your healing.

🗣️ Talk Therapy — When you need clarity, understanding, and a place to think out loud

Talk therapy is best when your primary goal is understanding yourself, your patterns, and your experiences. It’s conversational, reflective, and grounded in exploring what’s happening in your life and why.

Choose talk therapy when you want to:

  • Make sense of confusing emotions or reactions

  • Understand long‑standing patterns in relationships or behavior

  • Explore identity, values, or direction

  • Work through decisions or transitions

  • Build insight before taking action

Talk therapy creates the foundation: awareness, language, and perspective. It’s the “figuring out” phase.

🛠️ Skill Building Therapy — When you need tools, structure, and practical change

Skill building therapy focuses on learning and practicing concrete strategies to handle emotions, situations, and relationships more effectively. It’s active, structured, and aimed at helping you do something differently.

Choose skill building therapy when you want to:

  • Manage anxiety, overwhelm, or emotional intensity

  • Improve communication or boundary‑setting

  • Build coping skills for stress, conflict, or triggers

  • Strengthen routines, habits, or self‑discipline

  • Feel more capable and equipped day‑to‑day

Skill building therapy is the “doing” phase: learning tools that make life more manageable and predictable.

🌿 Processing Therapy — When you need healing, release, and integration

Processing therapy is for working through difficult experiences or emotions so they can be understood, accepted, and carried differently. It’s deeper, slower, and focused on healing rather than problem‑solving.

Choose processing therapy when you want to:

  • Work through trauma, grief, or painful memories

  • Release emotions you’ve been holding for years

  • Understand how past experiences shape your present

  • Move from survival mode into healing

  • Carry your story with less weight and more compassion

Processing therapy is the “healing” phase: transforming what hurts so you can move forward differently.

How to Decide What You Need

Most people benefit from a blend of these approaches over time. A simple way to choose is to ask:

  • Do I need support navigating systems? → Case Management

  • Do I need clarity? → Talk Therapy

  • Do I need tools? → Skill Building Therapy

  • Do I need healing? → Processing Therapy

Different seasons of life call for different kinds of work.

Therapeutic Modalities I utilize based on your goals:

  • Case Management is the structured, relational, and strategic process of helping a client navigate complex needs by coordinating services, advocating for resources, and ensuring continuity of care.

  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a brief, structured psychotherapy approach designed primarily to help people reduce the emotional distress associated with traumatic or highly distressing memories. ART combines elements of several therapeutic techniques, including exposure, imagery, cognitive restructuring, and guided eye movements.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — helps people accept difficult internal experiences while taking action based on their values.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) — builds skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, self-awareness, and communication.

  • Humanistic / Person-Centered Therapy — emphasizes empathy, authenticity, acceptance, and your capacity for growth.

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, person-centered psychotherapy approach designed to help you strengthen your motivation and commitment to change.

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) — concentrates on goals, strengths, exceptions to problems, and practical solutions rather than extensively analyzing the origins of difficulties.

  • Strengths-Based Therapy is a person-centered therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying, developing, and building upon a client's existing strengths, abilities, resources, resilience, and sources of support, rather than concentrating primarily on problems or deficits.

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It is what it is; but, it will become what you make it!
— Unknown

Vision & Purpose

My vision is to cultivate a community where people feel grounded, supported, and more confident in their ability to grow.

Through individual therapy and consulting with programs and organizations, Wildwood offers a warm, honest, and welcoming space to do the real work of healing and growth.

I believe growth is rarely neat or linear, and none of us have to have it all figured out. We can hold space for what has been, take responsibility for where we are now, and build practical skills for where we want to go next.

Wildwood’s purpose is to make healing and growth feel accessible, meaningful, and human—where progress is celebrated, challenges are met with compassion and accountability, and your past can be a guide, not an anchor!

About Me

Hey y’all! I am Katie- a USAF Veteran serving 11 years before being medically retired, former military spouse for 18 years, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

I’m also a mom to a couple young adults, dog mom, nature enthusiast, humanist, realist, educator, advocate, volunteer, and lover of all things caffeine!

As someone who has battled childhood trauma, military trauma, life stressors of single parenthood, divorce, my own mental health issues, finding purpose after loss, and rebuilding from the ground up- I want to use my experiences to relate and help you build the life you can be proud of.

I will challenge you. I will hold you accountable. I will be real and meet you on the level you need and walk with you on your journey- but this is YOUR journey!

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Contact Me!

Questions? Want to chat and see if I am a good fit? Contact me to get scheduled for a FREE 15 Minute consultation via phone or secure video.

If I’m not a good fit, I’d love to recommend someone who would be!

*Therapists are like deodorant- some work well for you and some don’t. Let’s get you to someone who works the best for you!

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