About Me

Hi, I am Kathryn Fitzgerald!

Whoever you are and whatever journey you are on, I am passionate about helping you find hope in the middle of life’s greatest challenges. In over 13 years of experience working intimately with individuals and families in daily life and in crisis situations, I have developed a genuine love of equipping people with the skills and support that they need in order to set goals and be empowered to reach them.

In 2010, I began working with high needs children when I was hired as an overnight youth counselor at a residential home for boys in Oregon. It was there where I first really discovered my heart for the kids and families struggling with behavioral and attachment concerns. Soon after, I connected with a network of therapists who trained me and incorporated me into service for their families as an attachment and trauma informed “Therapeutic nanny and respite provider.”

In traveling from home to home around the country, I worked closely with families of all kinds, to help them incorporate the skills their therapists were teaching them and coach each member of the family system in self regulation, co-regulation, boundaries, empathy, and how to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations. I then opened my home a respite provider, offering rest to exhausted and well deserving parents while giving children and teens a safe and consistent home environment that supported their healing journey. During our time together, my “kiddos” were able to work with their therapists to process through some of their greatest struggles and have one-on-one support as they put those skills into action. I developed a love for supporting kids and families facing aggression, fear, reactivity, and other high risk behaviors brought on from childhood trauma, Reactive Attachment (and other attachment concerns), experience in the foster/adoptive system, neurodiversity, and other neurological development issues.

I adopted my own bouncing baby 12 year old daughter in 2014, and married my incredible husband in 2016. We continued serving families until 2021, when life circumstances sent us into a different direction, but I was determined to keep serving the families I had treasured for so long. That is when I was hired on with Fircrest Behavioral Health in Vancouver, WA, and began my adventure in supporting individual nervous systems and family systems through Neruofeedback, Brainspotting, and offering services as a parent and family consultant! Now, in 2024, I am blessed to launch out into private practice and support individuals and families like you in new and unique ways!