What's My Approach to Therapy?
Katie Tiffany holds deep respect for each person’s inherent strength and capacity for change, believing that healing happens best through safe, authentic connection rather than in isolation. She is committed to creating a warm, supportive, and safe therapeutic space where healing and transformation can occur through connection rather than isolation. Using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach, Katie works collaboratively with individuals, couples, and families to help them navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, trauma, anxiety, and moments of feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Katie believes everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and met with dignity, especially in their most vulnerable moments, and brings an honest, compassionate presence that honors each client’s lived experience while supporting them in building meaningful, fulfilling lives.
At Foundations Counseling, Katie Tiffany works with a wide variety of clients who may be seeking services including:
· Children, adolescents, and teens – self-esteem and self-worth issues, anxiety, depression, drugs and alcohol, school and family issues, authoritative parenting, trauma, anger and defiance, apathy, creative therapies including art, movement, and play therapy, life coaching and goal setting, bullying, communication issues, family communication, social and relationship problems, performance and behavior issues
· Relationship and couples counseling – couples counseling, communication, codependency, sexuality and intimacy issues, alternative relationships, abuse, dating issues, parent-child interactions, pre-engagement, pre-marital, attachment issues and conditions, boundaries, conflict resolution, dating, and breakups
· Life transitions – restoring meaning to life, spirituality, end-of-life and grief issues, empty-nest syndrome, geographical transition, job transition, new parents, newlyweds, retirement, sex-change, establishing self, disability issues, grief, and loss
· Growth-oriented counseling – career counseling, life coaching, workplace bullying and conflicts, burnout and lack of motivation, quarter-life crisis, relocation, empowerment, life transitions, individual development
· Relationship and family issues – marital attachment counseling, codependency, marital difficulties, alternative relationships, communication, couples counseling, family counseling, engagement counseling, sexual issues, trauma recovery, affair recovery, addiction, families dealing with terminal illness, unresolved conflict, and conflict resolution
Katie Tiffany holds a Master of Social Work degree from Colorado State University, where she also earned an Advanced Clinical Behavioral Health Certificate and a Nonprofit Administration Graduate Certificate. She completed her graduate clinical internship in community mental health, providing integrated behavioral and medical care in an outpatient community health clinic setting. During her time there, Katie utilized solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), strengths-based approaches, motivational interviewing (MI), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with diverse client populations.
Katie brings extensive leadership and direct service experience from her work in nonprofit management, where she managed operations for emergency and extended-stay shelter programs serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. She supervised and developed teams of case managers and shelter staff in a 24-hour facility, providing client-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based case management while implementing restorative justice practices for conflict resolution. Katie conducted crisis interventions, safety assessments, and coordinated community resources to support clients' mental health and housing stability.
Prior to a career in social work and counseling, Katie developed strong leadership, team development, and interpersonal skills through 20 years of management roles in the hospitality industry. She also holds a Leadership Certificate from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from SUNY New Paltz.
Katie's approach to therapy is warm, grounded, and relational. She values authenticity, humor, and real conversation. Katie believes that healing happens in connection, not through being "fixed,” but through feeling genuinely seen and supported. She helps clients reconnect with their own strength, set realistic goals, break them into manageable steps, and move forward with both practical tools and emotional insight. By validating and contextualizing struggle, Katie helps clients explore what change might look like on their own terms. She is direct when it is helpful, compassionate always, and deeply respectful of each client's autonomy, pace, and readiness for change.
Katie’s clinical practice is grounded in a strengths-based orientation and a systems perspective that recognizes how larger forces (poverty, discrimination, family dynamics, systemic barriers) shape individual experiences. She utilizes evidence-based interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), and motivational interviewing (MI), while always centering the therapeutic relationship as the foundation of meaningful change. Katie believes that a counselor's attunement, presence, and integrity are as powerful as any modality, and brings all three to every session.
Clients working with Katie are likely to feel welcomed and respected, understood without being judged, empowered rather than directed, and supported in both emotional healing and practical problem-solving. She is committed to creating a safe, inclusive space for people of all backgrounds, identities, and life experiences, taking her ethical responsibility seriously. Katie is passionate about advocacy, equity, and social justice, and believes that mental health care must acknowledge not only individual pain, but also the systems and structures that contribute to it.