Katie Dean, LCSW

Katie Dean is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with three years of professional therapy experience and a decade of background in case management and human services. She works with teens and young adults, including those connected to juvenile justice services. Her practice focuses on helping people recover from trauma and build skills for more stable emotional health.

Katie emphasizes a client-centered, trauma-informed style. She aims to make sessions feel calm and nonjudgmental. Conversations focus on what matters to the person in front of her and on practical next steps to feel a little better between visits.

In therapy she helps people address relationship and family problems, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, and struggles with motivation and confidence. She also supports work through issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, and feelings of isolation or shame.

Your treatment plan is made with you. Katie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are suited to trauma work and emotional regulation. She helps clients learn coping tools, practice new ways of relating, and set manageable goals that match day-to-day life.

Sessions are geared toward real-world changes, like improving communication, reducing reactivity, or building stronger self-worth. Katie encourages steady progress through short-term skills and longer-term growth. If you want to begin, use the continue button on this profile and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.