Kathryn Armstrong, MA, LPC

Introduction: I have a unique combination of experience and interests. My practice attends predominantly to the needs of married couples, individuals who are struggling with the consequences of trauma, anxiety, and anger management and also with adolescents who are struggling with adolescence, parents, relationships, performance pressure, or any of the issues that challenge teens today. While I believe that there is no substitute for education; however I also use my experience in more than 37 years in the same marriage. This gives me ability to experientially understand the difficulties couples face as they struggle to make a relationship work against the challenges of contemporary life. Relationships take consistent, focused, hard work; something many brides and grooms increasingly overlook. We had help in making our relationship work. I would like to help you make yours work because the working marital relationship is still the greatest protection against the rigors and the stresses posed by contemporary life; however the relationship that is not working compounds the stresses of life in today's world. I would love to hear your story & help you find a way to make your relationship work. I have also experienced different forms of trauma throughout many of my 68 years at different times so I have the ability to empathize with & have a heart for those who are suffering. There is very little trauma I cannot empathize with. I would like to help you find relief from the suffering of trauma. When working with adolescents I feel I am connected to our future. They are facing the problems of adult life without the adults skills that only years will give them. They need someone who will listen with an understanding ear. It has never been as hard to be an adolescent or to parent an adolescent as it is today. I enjoy working with couples. After having been married for 37 years I am a believer in marriage and I enjoy helping other people find ways to make their marriage work. I also enjoy helping those who have been traumatized find release from the pain of trauma, anger or anxiety. And I enjoy working with adolescents who are our future. I am constantly reminded that they are growing up in a much more complex, challenging world than we did without many of the securities that we had and I have a real heart for them.