Meet Kathryn Fitzgerald

Whoever you are and whatever journey you are on, I am passionate about helping you find hope in the middle of life’s greatest challenges.

In 15 years of experience working intimately with individuals and families in daily life and in-crisis situations, I have developed a genuine love of equipping people with the skills and support that they need in order to set goals and be empowered to reach them.

My Professional Journey

In 2010, I began working as an overnight youth counselor with high needs children in a residential home for boys in Oregon. It was there where I first really discovered my heart for kids and families struggling with behavioral and attachment concerns. Soon after, I connected with a network of therapists who trained me and incorporated me into service for their families as an attachment and trauma informed “Therapeutic nanny and respite provider.”

In travelling from home to home around the country, I worked closely with families of all kinds, to help them incorporate the skills their therapists were teaching them and coach each member of the family system in self regulation, co-regulation, boundaries, empathy and how to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations.

I then opened my home as a respite provider, offering rest to exhausted and well deserving parents, while giving children and teens a safe and consistent home environment that supported their healing journey. During our time together, my “kiddos” were able to work with their therapists to process through some of their greatest struggles and have one-on-one support as they put those skills into action. I developed a love for supporting kids and families facing aggression, fear, reactivity and other high risk behaviors brought on from childhood trauma, Reactive Attachment (and other attachment trauma concerns), developmental disabilities, experience in the foster/adoptive system and neurodiversity, along with other neurological development and sensory struggles.

In 2021, life circumstances directed me to work at Fircrest Behavioral Health in Vancouver, WA, and began my adventure in coaching parents and caregivers as well as supporting individual nervous systems and family systems through Neurofeedback, Brainspotting and Grief Education.

Since then, I have been blessed to be in private practice, providing counsling, grief education and related services to individuals and families just like you!