About Kate Burns, LMFT
Kate is a Clinical Member in good standing of The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) since 1989, and is designated by AAMFT as an Approved Supervisor.
As an Approved Supervisor Kate trains other therapists and graduate students in becoming psychotherapists and in becoming licensed in the field.
Kate is a consultant to organizations and treatment systems, helping them to develop successful programs, improved systems of care, and positive environments conducive to carrying out their mission.
In her clinical practice she is comfortable doing what is often referred to as Brief or Solution-Focused Therapy, and in doing Long-Term therapy.
Kate’s training and expertise in helping people change patterns of behavior is particularly suited to helping couples and families turn their relationships around, as well as to assisting people who struggle with self-destructive behavior patterns that are also damaging to lives of loved ones.
Kate’s personal warmth, sensitivity and depth of understanding inform her awareness of the importance of a gentle and gradual approach in helping to heal certain wounds and transform more complex problems.
Kate was first licensed in California in the 1980s, where relationship therapy and brief therapy approaches had been serious areas of study since the 1960s.
She studied under Michael Yapko, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, author and internationally recognized expert and lecturer in the treatment of Depression, and the use of hypnosis in treating Anxiety, Depression, and in creating change www.yapko.com.
Hypnosis is a well-researched therapeutic tool that, in the hands of a skilled clinician, can be used to serve the client’s goals. Kate is a skilled practitioner who uses a naturalistic style of hypnosis, known as Ericksonian Hypnosis.
Kate is fluent in the use of hypnotic interventions as a tool, among others, to help people achieve their goals and enhance the quality of their lives. Hypnosis creates an optimal learning environment and is often used in assisting people to:
- Bypass the negative mind chatter and unconscious processes that often keep people stuck
- Reduce anxiety and fears
- Enhance health, performance, and learning
- Consider alternate ways of achieving their goals / expand range of options
- Make changes they previously were unable to make or thought impossible
- Break negative patterns / self-limiting “bad habits.”
Kate considers herself “not the right therapist” for those seeking hypnosis in order to explore past lives.
She received extensive training at the Cognitive Therapy and Training Center in San Diego, California. www.cognitivetherapyandtrainingcenter.com
Kate is fluent in the using the tools of Cognitive Therapy, an evidence-based, scientifically-grounded, and holistic psychotherapeutic approach.
Cognitive Therapy helps people uncover and change specific thoughts and beliefs that interfere with their lives and goals by:
- Helping clients have an in-depth understanding of the latest research on the interrelatedness of their: thoughts, beliefs, behavior, feelings, and body
- Experiencing the way having made a change in one area can affect profound changes in others
- Teaching clients to identify the thoughts or behaviors that lead to problematic results, to understand and to challenge them
- Teaching clients the all-important skills, to make adjustments/ changes that will enhance the quality of life now and in the long term.
