Kathryn (Katy) Dumont, LCSW, MPH, Qualified Supervisor

Katy Dumont, LCSW (SW8308), QS
Atala Counseling
Location: Lakeland, Florida

I offer an accepting, authentic, and shame-free space for individuals, couples, and families navigating life’s most demanding challenges. My therapeutic approach is warm, deeply compassionate, and practical. I combine intensive clinical training with a down-to-earth directness to help you gain insight, develop actionable coping skills, and create lasting change.

My Specialty Areas of Practice
I provide evidence-based therapy tailored specifically to high achievers, couples, and families navigating major transitions. My core specialties include:

• High Achievers, Executives, & Business Professionals: Managing executive burnout, perfectionism, professional stressors, anxiety, and work-life balance.
• Couples Therapy & Relational Issues: Rebuilding trust, repairing repetitive conflict patterns, healing attachment wounds, and restoring emotional intimacy.
• LGBTQ+ Family Support: Helping parents navigate uncertainty, fears, and communication changes while building a deeply supportive, affirming relationship with their LGBTQ+ child.
• Clinical Health & Transition Support: Navigating depression, trauma, OCD, grief and loss, and maternal mental health challenges.

My Approach to Therapy
I believe you are the expert of your own experience, and I serve as your guide through deep attunement and presence. Because every client is unique, I reject one-size-fits-all treatments. I draw from a diverse toolkit of specialized, evidence-based modalities to build a plan that fits your exact needs:

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy for relational healing and communication. (NIH – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6037577/; Gottman Institute – https://www.gottman.com/about/research/)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Certified) for managing thoughts and emotions. (NIH – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8475916/)</li
  

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for trauma, OCD and anxiety. (NIH -https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3951033/); (NIH – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11614422/); (NIH – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6935308/)
• Transgender Affirmative Mental Healthcare (over 42 hours of advanced continued education). (NIH – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9829155/)
• Attachment-Based, Humanistic, Person Centered, Somatic and Trauma-Informed Care to heal foundational wounds.

Background and Clinical Experience
For more than 30 years, I have helped clients move through complex challenges and build stronger relationships—with others and with themselves. I have worked across a broad spectrum of professional and clinical settings since 1994, holding both direct practice and clinical management positions. My extensive background includes experience in:

• Inpatient Treatment Facilities & Intensive Outpatient Programs
• Hospice Organizations specializing in grief, loss, and bereavement work
• Corporate Settings understanding the distinct pressures faced by leaders and executives

Outside of clinical practice, I have a long-standing history of volunteering for and supporting local non-profit organizations, rooted in my core belief that relationships matter.

Getting Started
Whether you are trapped in a cycle of painful relationship patterns, carrying the heavy mental load of executive leadership, or learning how to best support your LGBTQ+ child, meaningful change is entirely possible. You do not have to carry everything alone. Click on my availability to request an appointment.