About

Hi there! My name is Kaitlyn McMahon and I am a licensed clinical social worker dually licensed in Pennsylvania and Missouri. I earned my Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. I have 9 years of direct practice experience and have held an advanced practice license since 2015. I have worked with diverse groups of clients struggling with a broad range of issues, to include substance use disorder, trauma and PTSD, stress and anxiety, depression and mood disorders, marital and family issues, military and Veterans' issues, grief and loss, anger management, codependency, and more. I have worked in both residential and outpatient treatment settings and have experience providing individual, group, and couples therapy.

My treatment approach is client-centered, trauma-informed, grounded in social behavior theory (particularly attachment theory), and psychodynamic/existential in style. I meet my clients with compassion and warmth. I strive to provide culturally competent care to each client and work to understand their individual background and lived experience. I hope to create a safe space to work through difficult emotional experiences and to figure out what can be learned from them.

Notes about appointment availability: I work a regular 9-5 and my general availability is weekday evenings and one weekend day each week. Along with every green/open slot that you see on my schedule, additional/same-day/weekend appointments are available upon request; I am able to be most flexible with live chat sessions.

If you are a client who is just dipping your toe into the waters of therapy and want to be compassionately eased into the process, I would be a good match for you.

If you are a client who is interested mainly in asynchronous and instant messaging and you see your concerns listed as issues with which I have experience, I would be a good match for you.

If you are looking for a therapist who will treat you with respect, dignity, and unconditional positive regard no matter what you share, who will work hard to understand you, who will be a helper on your healing journey, I would be a good match for you.

If you are looking for a therapist who is reliable, consistent, dependable, and available to be responsive to you, I would be a good match for you.

I believe that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is integral to the success of treatment, and I’d love the opportunity to get to know you and see how I can be helpful to you.

Some of the most helpful and life-changing pieces of information I've ever come across have been freely given to me, and so I'd like to share with you a couple of mantras/sayings/affirmations that I personally find helpful and that I often suggest to my Find A Therapist clients: progress, not perfection; this is not a life sentence; it's not hard work, it's just work; it won't always be this hard; I can do hard things; life is tough but so am I; as the great Thomas Jefferson once said, "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on,"; and as the great Winston Churchill once said, "When you're going through hell, keep going!"