Kat Darger

Kat works with people navigating anxiety, grief, relationships, and self-esteem, and especially with the repetitive patterns that keep returning no matter how well a person understands them. She brings warmth, depth, and insight to a psychodynamic, strengths-based approach, and she is particularly skilled at holding complex emotions and helping clients disentangle the underlying patterns that inhibit growth. For Kat, therapy is a collaborative process: a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore the parts of themselves that are difficult to access alone, build resilience through insight and new relational experience, and move toward new ways of being with themselves and others.

Kat also brings particular experience to struggles that move in cycles: moods that swing with the month, anxiety that swells with the news, grief that returns in seasons. She has specific expertise in supporting individuals with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and other cyclical mood challenges, providing individualized care that honors each person’s particular experience, and she works thoughtfully with clients navigating eco-anxiety and ecological grief, helping people process these concerns and reconnect with their values and sense of agency.

Kat holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Saint Martin’s University, with experience in community mental health, crisis and advocacy work, private practice, and support groups. Her continuing study centers on holistic, relational psychotherapy grounded in neuroscience.

Beyond her work as a therapist, Kat finds inspiration in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest, and in a deep love of art and music. These interests fuel the creativity and grounded presence she brings to her clients.