Kat Vollono, LCSW (NY, FL, CT)
she/her/hers
A graduate of Silberman School of Social Work in NYC and practicing psychotherapist, Kat has received extensive training to help others learn, grow, and step into their personal power. Kat specializes in anxiety, relationship anxiety, highly sensitive person, financial anxiety, and conscious money work and holds space for her clients that is strengths-based, affirming, empowering, feminist, trauma- informed, and non-judgmental.
Kat has also been featured in major media sources such as Brandon Stosuy’s book Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears ,Bustle’s article Why Won't My Partner Open Up? 7 Ways To Help A Partner Who Is Emotionally Repressed , How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Your Mom, According to Experts, The Zoe Report Behind The Cathartic Release Of Getting Tattooed, and blog Scary Mommy, “Negative Nancys, Crappy In Laws, And Other Toxic Relationships In Your Life, According to Experts”
Specializations
Relationship Anxiety
Financial Anxiety and Avoidance
Trauma
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP)
Breathwork Assisted Psychotherapy
Client Testimonials
“My husband and I worked with Kat in couples therapy for one year, during which time we navigated many life changes together: quarantining together during COVID, getting married, losing a family member, and becoming dog parents.
I can definitively say that none of those major life changes would have been possible to navigate as well without Kat's unconditional support and steady ear. She helped us understand our different attachment styles and helped us better repair during inevitable conflicts that arose.
She also encouraged us when times got tough and helped us normalize difficulties we faced as a natural part of life's journey. I am truly grateful for Kat and her warmth/wisdom.”
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“I understand myself and my patterns so much better than I did before, which is so helpful in seeing them with some more grounded objectivity instead of getting totally swept up and stuck.
I have deeper compassion and patience for myself and for my family and friends around me.
I feel overall more grounded in my day to day. In my career I don't feel consumed by this all-consuming clinging feeling that I used to feel.
It also feels easier to clue into what I actually need and to ask for it. I'm much better at communicating my needs and boundaries. I feel soooo much less shame talking about and admitting to myself the truths of my internal world and experiences/struggles.
Also, I am proudly out with my queerness to myself and others, and I feel that the safe space of therapy with you was absolutely essential in exploring that part of myself and slowly, bit by bit, letting myself stand in that. I came to you scared of my queerness and slowly, through the safe space, ended our time together out and proud. Of course, there’s always more to discover about that but I'm very grateful for that. Also, because I felt how helpful therapy with you was and how different I feel being in therapy versus not being in therapy, I know how important it is for me to continue to take care of myself in this way.” L.M.
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“Kat is great and so understanding! Seeing her these past few years has helped me grow into a better person, family member and friend.” R.S.
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“What I'm taking away is being about what made me not feel deserving of money and it actually came down to these things about presence and about connection.
It's really comes down to this place of being worthy of presence, being worthy of connection, being worthy of attention, and all that is playing out in my relationship with money.
I was able to have acknowledgement of what that pain is, and being able to be present with it and deal with it in a healthy way. “ S.L.
Colleague Testimonials
“Kat is an exceptionally skilled therapist whose natural blend of sincerity, compassion, empathy, and insight create the very environment that makes therapy safe and effective. It is easy to see why Kat is a therapist and to understand how tremendously helpful she is for the lives of her clients.”
- J.Z.
"Kat is a warm, thoughtful, and compassionate therapist who has the ability to make anyone feel comfortable. She has an openness that can be felt and she offers a judgement-free space where clients can explore themselves fully. I would highly recommend ..."
-S.A.M.
Education
HUNTER, SILBERMAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
MSW, Clinical Social Work with Individuals and Families
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
B.A., Psychology
B.A., Human Development & Family Studies
Certification
EMDR
Gottman Method - Level 1, Level 2
Breathwork- Level 1, 2, 3
Training
EGPS One year Group Therapy Training Program (2024), Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders (2024), New Parents, Their Babies, and Scary Thoughts: Effective Interventions for Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety (2024), Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples (2024), Indelity Counseling: Treating Couples in Crisis (2023), Understanding Polyamory (2023), Social Anxiety: Assessment and Treatment (2023), Providing Effective Therapy for Adult ADHD (2023), Suicide Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention (2023) The Art of Healing in Relationships: Resolving Trauma & Restoring Connection (2023), Attachment Focused EMDR (2023), Financial Therapy Association Education Series (2022), Relationship OCD (2022), Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy via Fluency and Journey Clinical (2022), Finding the Fear- Couples Therapy Training (2021), Infidelity Counseling (2021), Panic Attacks, A Brief Intervention (2021), Treating Health Anxiety (2020), Pure OCD Subtypes: How to Identify and Treat (2020), Therapy for Gifted Clients (2020), EMDR (2019), EMDR Therapy from Trauma to Spiritual Awakening (12/2019), Gottman Level 1 (9/2019), Psychedelic 101 & 102 for Clinicians, training in integration (5/2019), Internal Family Systems (5/2019), Breathwork- Level 3 (4/2019), Breathwork- Level 2 (3/2019), Psychopharmacology for Non- Prescribers (2/2019), Breathwork- Level 1 (2/2019), Utilizing DBT Skills (9/2018), Adolescent Brain Development (9/2018), Differential Diagnosis (5/2018), Assessment and Treatment of Complex Trauma (4/2018), Behavioral Activation for Depression (3/2018), Motivational Interviewing (1/2018), Trauma Focused CBT (12/2017), Reiki Master (12/2017), Introduction to Hakomi (9/2017), Coping with Chaos: Treating Multiple Severe Disorders with DBT (6/2017), SP-TIE: Intervention and prevention of Suicidal Behavior (5/2017), CPR (2/2017)