Cathy Linde, LCSW, LSCSW, SEP works with adults experiencing mental, emotional, and relational impacts of trauma, early neglect, and early attachment wounding, which often times become categorized in symptom clusters labeled PTSD, anxiety, and depression, or lead to chronic pain. Cathy understands people through a biopsychosocialspiritual lens, taking into account the interplay of a person’s biology and environmental factors, past and present. Cathy is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (www.traumahealing.org), is level 2 trained in Brainspotting (www.brainspotting.com), and is also trained in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (www.painreprocessingtherapy.com). Through her training and lived experience, Cathy understands that resolution of symptoms begins with integration of past or current experiences that have been overwhelming to the nervous system – that have rendered us stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, and in disconnection with ourselves and others.  Cathy works with her clients using both top-down (cognitive) and bottom-up (body-based) approaches with the goal of full embodiment, which yields deep self-compassion, respect and honor for inner wisdom, and increased sense of vitality.

Cathy is also pleased to be affiliated with Curable, a cutting-edge and quite effective app for chronic pain, as a facilitator for their 12 week online chronic pain groups since 2019.

Cathy is a native of Kansas City, MO, and has a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Masters in International Education from Framingham State College, and a Masters in Social Welfare from the University of Kansas.  Cathy lives in Overland Park with her husband and children, although, with a passion for languages and adventure, has lived in two other countries.  Cathy honors the inherent dignity of all human beings, believes Black lives matter, understands implicit bias and works to make it known to herself, and works to be a safe provider for all sexual orientations and expressions of gender.