About Katie Lorz

Counseling & Psychotherapy for Women in Tacoma, WA

You finally made the decision to find a therapist, only to realize that finding a counselor in Tacoma, Olympia or even online in Washington State is pretty difficult to do.

You just need relief from the anxiety, depression, or stress. You need your relationships to improve, or you need to feel less alone and disconnected from others. You want to feel more connected to yourself, joyful about the direction of your life, and fulfilled in your relationships. You want to feel understood, acknowledged, valued, and empowered.

Finding a therapist shouldn’t be this hard. It’s not always easy to know who you can trust.

Hi, I’m Katie Lorz and I became a licensed mental health counselor (aka therapist) in Tacoma, Olympia, and online in Washington because I care deeply about helping people live their best life. After working in mental health settings from hospitals to crisis centers to addictions and recovery centers for over 20 years, I felt like there had to be a better way to help people before they get to a state of mental distress that totally disrupts their life and leaves them feeling hopeless, helpless, isolated, and just in a constant state of survival. I wanted to help people before they experienced the debilitating effects that poor mental health has on relationships, self-esteem, physical health, and the quality and quantity of life.

Working with people across the lifespan I realized that meaningful relationships and a strong sense of self are foundational to mental wellbeing. I also realized that traumatic experiences have a way of throwing a healthy person into a tailspin, and they happen more often than you might think. Intergenerational and relational trauma, neglect, and emotional manipulation can do real harm. But regardless of your past, you can heal, learn how to trust yourself and others, learn how to have healthy relationships, and gain a healthy sense of self-esteem.

I’ve gotten advanced training and real life personal and professional experience in all things related to identity development, healthy relationships, and healing from traumatic experiences. I’ve specialized my practice so that we can work together to find what works best for you to achieve optimal outcomes for your therapy goals, and —more importantly— help you to feel better. I’ve got the tools and strategies that really work.

We will check in regularly during our work together, and if it’s not working, I’ll change it up or refer you out. I care more about you healing and seeing positive change in your life than anything else.

I have Master’s Degrees in Counseling Psychology and Business Administration and specialized training and experience in working with multiple types of mental health symptoms, relationship fractures, and traumatic experiences. My specialties include counseling women for optimal mental health and identity development, to heal from break ups or toxic relationships, to heal from past or current traumatic experiences, and to become empowered in their relationships, life, and personal mental wellbeing. I also enjoy helping men who are impacted by “toxic masculinity” and want to work on themselves for their own mental health and for the important relationships in their life. Those who want to expand their emotional language, connect authentically with themselves and have genuine, supportive relationships with the people in their lives.

I am also a Level 4 trained Lifespan Integration therapist in Tacoma, Olympia, and online in Washington state, and that allows me to use cutting-edge techniques that don’t require you to talk about what happened in order to feel better and heal. If you prefer to talk, I focus on deep therapy and the science behind mind-body connections that promote optimal mental wellbeing. I am passionate about how personalities develop (as a protective response to trauma), and how personality development can heal trauma, and increase healthy relationships and internal wisdom.

Life is full of ups and downs, difficult relationships, and unpredictable events, but I help women (and the men who love them) reconnect to their internal wisdom— their intuition— to see themselves clearly, heal from emotional wounds, connect meaningfully to self and others, and navigate the changes of life with increased predictability , self-compassion, and joy.

I know it can feel like a big step to reach out, but I’ll make it easy. Click to fill out my contact form, and let me know what you’re looking for and how you’d like to connect. At any time in our work if you feel like I am not the right person to help you through things, I’ll do my best to get you to the right person.

Contact me at (435) 776-5959 for your free 15-minute phone consultation for counseling in Tacoma, Olympia, or online in Washington State. You deserve to feel the powerful impacts of attending to your mental health. You can have fulfilling relationships, a joyful life, and a strong sense of identity that comes from the healing, growth, connection, and meaning that therapy provides.