About Me
My name is Kaitlyn Wilson, but I prefer Kait (she/her).
I am honored that you are here! My strength and skill lie in my passion for reframing the narrative survivors internally and externally experience, building resilience and wellness, and most importantly, doing so in a way that honors their unique individual and cultural experience.
Like so many before me, my strengths and skills grew through a mixture of experience and training. My family of origin is diverse; wrought with racism, intergenerational trauma, disruptions, separations, homophobia, systemic failures. Our collective story was perceived outwardly as looking like violence, poverty, homelessness, intense perfectionism, promiscuity, substance use, illegal activity, mental health, health challenges, early deaths.
What I saw, however, was the experience of survivors who harbored innate strength, adaptability, creativity, problem-solving, a longing, and desperation for a better life for each future generation but no road map to follow.
I did not understand until my training how BOTH of these concepts could be simultaneously true.
This is where my training came in. I took a class in social work simply because someone told me it would be a great career choice. I was innately curious about how people existed in the world, I had a diverse familial and relational background, and I had personal experiences that led to an inherent ability to see situations deeply, link patterns quickly, feel and hold space for people, and a natural awareness and understanding. This class was life-changing.
I learned how our earliest experiences shape, at our core (literally our brain too!), how we viewed ourselves, our emotional, behavioral and physical selves, our relationships with others, and our experience in the broader world. All I could think was "well duh." Now I needed to know how can we change this? How can we change the way people viewed those whose outward behaviors were perhaps unhelpful, unhealthy, and hurtful but who inwardly were using every skill and strength they had to survive and experience a life better than before.
This is how I created my approach and the treatment I provide and committed my life to this.
If I can shift one person's understanding and narrative from "something is wrong with them" to "something happened to them" and help them achieve our co-created goals, I know I have helped to create change that is needed and deserved for survivors. However, the greatest privilege I have is to see the shift in a survivor themselves. It is a gift to witness, and I am truly grateful to have each and every client in my professional life.
Over time, I have created a niche and specialty in perinatal and parenting realms but serve all adults with complex trauma histories.
In addition to the role of a therapist, I am a Complex Trauma Treatment Network Faculty Member (National ARC trainer), I am the Foundation Trust Training and Resource Development Associate, and am the Master TA for the Complex Trauma Training Consortium. I am a parent, wife, friend, dog owner, biracial woman committed to changing the lives of people by helping them change the way they see themselves.