Therapist
Katie Keech
Oakland, CA, United States
Katie Keech obtained a Masters in Counseling from John F. Kennedy University in 2003. She has over twenty years of clinical experience in community mental health and private practice in a range of settings. She worked as the volunteer coordinator for San Francisco Suicide Prevention, where she helped launch the Trevor Project (a hotline for LGBT youth) and led grief groups for people who’d lost loved ones to suicide. She was an assistant program director at Casa de la Vida, one of the first social rehabilitation residential clinics for Transitional Aged Youth (TAY). Later she was a program manager at East Bay Community Recovery Project which was a forensic mental health program. At Stars Behavioral Health she managed two TAY programs that focused on a serious mental health diagnoses. Since 2021, Katie has worked full time in private practice.
Katie has training in brainspotting, hypnosis, and sensorimotor therapies. Additionally, she has received training through the ISST-D, was trained in the Transition to Independence Program (TIP) Model, and participated in “Train the Trainer” for both the CANS/ ANSA assessments and the CSE-IT assessment tools. Katie has trained in and provided trainings on suicide assessment and suicide/crisis prevention. At the Women's Therapy Center, she was faculty and provided trainings in relational feminist psychodynamic therapy.
Katie continues to provide trainings on assessing and diagnosing dissociative disorders and TAY to CMH programs and through ISST-D. She received the City of Berkeley Mental Health Division’s Mental Health Achievement Award in 2021 for this work.
Katie joined the ISSTD Board in 2019 and has served as Secretary since 2020. She is the Co-Chair of the Fundraising Committee and the TAY Guidelines Committee, Founder and Chair for both the TAY and the Transgender and Nonbinary SIGs, and the moderator and co-founder for the Neurodiversity and Dissociation SIG.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time