Meet the Team
Kat Records, LCSW
Kat works to understand her clients as whole people, including their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, perceptions, and relationships. She works to understand each of her client’s subjective experience in the world with acceptance, empathy, and non-judgment. She believes that every person has inherent worth and potential and focuses on empowering clients to live fulfilling lives and achieve self-actualization. She views her clients as having the freedom to make choices that allow them to actively shape their lives as they want to. Clients are encouraged to be open to understanding external forces, unconscious drives, and make changes in their lives that allow them to move from their current self towards their ideal version of self.
Kat believes that there is no one right therapeutic modality for everyone. She pulls from various theories and models to make therapy work for each client. Kat’s style is compassionate, direct, authentic, and accepting. Kat challenges her clients to grow in ways that align with their identified goals.
Many people come to therapy seeking to understand why they have so many painful emotions and figure out how to make them less or go away. Other’s may be focused on wanting to change behaviors that are causing problems for them and others in their lives, such as self-harm, substance use. For others, it may be there is high conflict in relationships all around them and they want to change that to build and maintain positive, safe, and trusting relationships. Taking time to understand how we think and changing patterns of thinking to better serve us can be very helpful in shifting our emotions and behaviors towards what we want more of. This is often referred to as a top-down approach as it’s going from mind to body.
In addition to learning how to explore thoughts and how they impact our feelings and actions, there are times we need to explore the emotions, body sensations, and urges first. The protective parts of our nervous system works much faster then the thinking parts of our brain. This automatic protective system will create emotions, urges, and actions before we we have had time to think about it. This is desirable when we are in danger, we don’t want to be slowed down by thinking. These fast reactions into fight/flight/freeze/fawn/faint are there to help us survive. There are times we get stuck here, unable to believe we are safe even when we are and then these reactions are less desirable. Being in this survival mode will shape the thoughts about ourselves and the world. Due to this, we have to find a way to work with our feelings and body sensations while learning to notice being safe if we are going to be able to get back into a space we can effectively think.
Where we have this loop where feelings/body sensations impact urges/behaviors/actions, and these impact our thoughts/beliefs, which them impacts in turn out feelings, body sensations, urges… what we need moment by moment changes. Kat encouraged clients to come where they are, as they are, and work with that.
Kat obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maine Farmington in 2012. Kat worked as a behavioral health professional and crisis worker while obtaining her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Southern Maine, graduating in 2018. Since obtaining her MSW, Kat has been providing individual and family therapy services. Kat worked in a high school as a school based clinician then community mental health agency as an outpatient clinician before moving into private practice in 2025. Kat began providing clinician supervision in 2020.
Kat has training in several evidenced based modalities, including but not limited to: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and in the Gottman Method (couple’s counseling).
Kat works with adolescents (13yo+) and adults.
Kat accepts the following insurances as an affiliated clinician with Spurwink:
MaineCare, Medicare, Wellcare, Tricare, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), Maine Community Health Options (MBHO), Aetna, MMC PHO, Martin’s Point, Harvard Pilgrim, United Behavioral Healthcare (UBH), United Healthcare (UHC), and UMR.
Kat also accepts self-pay through Sun and Moon Therapy at the following rates:
Initial Assessment (60 minutes): $200 Individual Therapy (60 minutes): $150 Individual Therapy (45 minutes): $125 Individual Therapy (30 minutes): $100
Kat is accepting new clients!
