Kaitlin Kennedy
Kaitlin works with individuals, couples, and families who are navigating life’s challenges and seeking meaningful change. She supports clients in addressing relationship struggles, emotional distress, life transitions, and patterns that may be keeping them feeling stuck. Her goal is to help people build healthier relationships, strengthen resilience, and create lives that feel more balanced and fulfilling.
Kaitlin’s personal experiences with adversity and healing inspired her to become a therapist. She understands how difficult it can feel when life isn’t going the way you hoped—and she also knows the growth and freedom that can come from doing the work of healing. This perspective allows her to approach therapy with empathy, authenticity, and deep respect for each client’s journey.
Her husband and daughter are the heart of her world and continually remind her why this work matters. Kaitlin believes therapy is about reconnecting with yourself, strengthening your relationships, and creating a life that feels meaningful. She feels honored to walk alongside her clients in that process.
Individuals
Kaitlin is dedicated to helping individuals in therapy overcome a wide range of challenges,
including anxiety, depression, other mental health disorders, and stressful life events. She is
skilled in addressing trauma, managing difficult emotions, and providing tools for anger
management. Kaitlin also emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and developing strong
relationship skills, empowering her clients to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives. Her
approach is compassionate and holistic, aiming to support individuals in navigating their
personal journeys toward healing and growth.
Kaitlin offers a supportive and empowering approach to therapy, providing individualized care,
ensuring that each session is cohesive and tailored to meet the unique needs of her clients.
Kaitlin’s goal is to create a safe and nurturing environment where clients can explore their
challenges and develop practical strategies for navigating life with greater confidence and
resilience.
Couples
Kaitlin helps couples navigate a wide range of issues through therapy, including unhealthy
communication, intimacy and connection challenges, infidelity, addiction, parenting conflicts,
major life transitions, conflict resolution, and financial stress. She focuses on bringing couples
together to collaboratively resolve these issues, fostering stronger and more fulfilling
relationships. Kaitlin’s approach is designed to address key areas in relationships, helping
couples overcome challenges and rekindle their connection. She focuses on removing barriers
that make partners feel stuck, resolving conflicts, fostering mutual understanding, increasing
intimacy and affection, building mutual respect, and ensuring that couples can enjoy fun and joy
together once again. Her comprehensive approach aims to create stronger, healthier, and more
fulfilling partnerships.
Children, Teens and Families
Kaitlin is passionate about working with children and teens, from 6 to 18 years old, using developmentally appropriate approaches such as play therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has a special interest in supporting youth who have been impacted by addiction within the family system. Kaitlin tailors her approach to each child’s unique needs, whether working one-on-one, involving the entire family, or partnering with parents to support the child’s healing and development. Her work is grounded in a trauma-informed, relational framework that emphasizes emotional safety, resilience, and connection.
Family therapy often focuses on improving the dynamics within a family by addressing various aspects of the family system, parenting and the overall balance needed to maintain a cohesive and connected unit. Kaitlin can help families improve communication, resolve conflicts and strengthen relationships within the family. Kaitlin helps clients explore how your family history and patterns influence your interactions today, enabling you to make conscious changes that lead to healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
Addiction
Addiction therapy is a specialized form of therapy and treatment designed to support individuals, and their loved ones, struggling with substance use disorders or behavioral addictions. Its primary goal is to help people overcome addiction, maintain long-term recovery, and enhance their mental, emotional, and social well-being.
Kaitlin approaches addiction therapy from a unique perspective. Drawing on her expertise in marriage and family therapy, she views addiction through the lens of family systems. Kaitlin believes that addiction not only affects the individual, but the entire family. Her background includes extensive experience working with individuals and families in treatment center settings, combined with her own journey in recovery. This blend of professional knowledge and personal insight deeply informs her therapeutic philosophy.
Her approach is grounded in compassion, authenticity, and the belief that healing happens through connection. Kaitlin takes a collaborative approach—walking alongside individuals, couples, and families as they process pain, rediscover their strengths, and build healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Kaitlin works within the Recovery Model, Bowen Family Systems Theory, and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients move beyond addiction and codependency. She provides practical tools, emotional insight, and guidance around establishing clearly defined boundaries. Her approach emphasizes understanding how addiction and recovery affect both the individual, their loved ones, and the entire family system.
She focuses on helping clients build trust, increase self-awareness, and foster open, respectful communication. Therapy, in her view, should be a safe and supportive space where clients feel seen, can be honest, and grow—no matter where they are starting from.
Education and Background
Kaitlin is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT). She holds a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from National University. She has been working in the mental health, addiction, and substance use field since 2017, gaining extensive experience in multiple treatment centers before transitioning to private practice.
When Kaitlin isn’t at work, she enjoys playing with her young daughter, taking her dog to the park and staying connected with her loved ones. This balance helps her stay grounded and grateful in both her personal and professional life.
Scheduling and Insurance
Kaitlin accepts United Healthcare, BCBS, and Aetna insurance. She does not accept AHCCCS (Mercy Care), ACA (Marketplace), Healthchoice, Medicare, Medicaid, or EAPs. For clients without insurance, her fee is $120 per session. Kaitlin has flexible scheduling options, including evening and weekend appointments. To schedule an appointment click the Schedule Now button below, call (480) 248-0876, or email her at kaitlinkennedymft@gmail.com.