Kathryn "Kathy" Proctor, LICSW

Kathryn "Kathy" Proctor is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with more than 25 years of clinical practice. Based in Massachusetts and having worked across New England for her entire career, she brings a broad professional background that spans early work in mental health, trauma, and eating disorders to more recent focus on grief, loss, and bereavement.

She works effectively with a wide age range, including young adults, middle-age adults, and older adults. Her approach is client-centered and grounded in a warm, supportive stance. She listens carefully, reflects both challenges and strengths back to clients, and helps them see the larger patterns that shape their experience.

Kathy emphasizes practical coping skills and concrete tools while also encouraging a deeper connection to the self and inner guidance. Her practice incorporates healing modalities such as meditation and breathwork when these techniques fit a client’s needs. Her style is eclectic, drawing on the methods and skills that are most helpful for each individual.

She finds professional satisfaction in helping people feel better and in supporting clients as they navigate change, relationship concerns, trauma, grief, and other life challenges.