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Meet Katie Fries

LCSW, RPT™, CCTP-II, (she/her)

Specialties: Adults living with the impact of early relational trauma/neglect, Parent/child attachment difficulties

(As of March 2023, not currently accepting new clients. Available for clinical consultation and training. For more information about speaking/consulting, please visit www.katiefries.com)

I help adult women, children, and families process trauma and other challenging life experiences so they can learn to love themselves and believe they are deserving of healthy relationships.

My passion for working with young women began in college where I worked at my University’s center for prevention of sexual and relationship violence.  There, my passion for helping women heal from trauma grew as I helped to facilitate groups and organize programming for women experiencing commercial sexual exploitation.

In graduate school was when my love of play therapy and experiential therapies began.  It was then I learned about the critical importance of family involvement in child therapy to promote and strengthen healthy caregiver/child relationships.

I’ve been told many times I should choose between working with kids or adults-but I’ve decided that I can’t and don’t have to choose! I love both! And this is because my understanding of child development and the impact of early life experiences has deeply informed my work with adults in helping to reframe unwanted behaviors as brilliant creative adjustments to some of life’s toughest challenges.

I love helping parents understand how their own upbringings inform their struggles with parenting and in turn gain compassion for both themselves and their children.

I work from a relational, body-oriented, experiential, emotion-focused perspective.  I am committed to obtaining continual therapy, training, and supervision throughout my career to best be able to support my clients in their journeys towards transformation and self-understanding.

Session Fee: $215/session

Katie Fries Therapist

Credentials and Training

  • Owner and founder of All of You Therapy, LLC

  • Master of Social Work from Rutgers University- Certification in Violence Against Women and Children

  • LCSW in the State of Pennsylvania: CW019748

  • LCSW in the State of New Jersey: 44SC05952200

  • Registered Play Therapist (RPT™)- Requiring 150 hours of play therapy specific instruction- Association for Play Therapy

  • Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional (CCTP-II)- Evergreen Certifications

  • Certified Gestalt Therapist (Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia)- 3 year program

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) (Center for Self-Leadership)- Level 1

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)- Level 3

  • Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy (Courtney Armstrong)- 50 hours

  • Theraplay- Level 2

  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)- Level 1

  • Brainspotting- Level 1

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)- Basic Training completed

  • Collaborative Problem Solving by Dr. Ross Green

  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)- Cognitive Behavioral Institute

  • Other trainings include Interpersonal Neurobiology/relational neuroscience, sand tray therapy, Attachment Based Family Therapy, and Focusing