Kathryn Dietzway, MSW, LCSW-BACS

No mind exists without a body.
No body exists outside a world.

My work lives in the space between the personal and the systemic—where nervous systems meet relationships, communities, institutions, and the living Earth. Through somatic psychotherapy, ecotherapy, clinical leadership, and a person-in-environment perspective, I explore how healing becomes possible across every layer of our lives.

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Kathryn Dietzway
Psychotherapist · Clinical executiveFounder · Educator

01 / Perspective

“Good clinical work depends on more than technique. It asks us to notice the person, the body, the relationships, and the systems shaping what is possible.”

My training as a clinical social worker shapes how I understand both individual care and organizational leadership. I pay attention to complexity: the nervous system and the larger system, clinical judgment and operational design, evidence and lived experience.

That perspective has taken me from community-based treatment and inpatient psychiatric care to private practice, therapist education, executive clinical leadership, and the development of new tools for EMDR clinicians.

02 / Areas of work

One practice.
Several vantage points.

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Psychotherapy

Individualized trauma therapy for adults, integrating EMDR with somatic, attachment-focused, and eco-somatic approaches. Clinical services are currently provided through WellxNess.

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Clinical leadership

Founder and Clinical Director of The Therapy Garden; Director of Clinical Operations at WellxNess, shaping the standards and systems behind high-quality care.

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Training & consultation

EMDR consultation and continuing education for clinicians working with complex trauma, dissociation, somatic psychotherapy, and eco-somatic practice.

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Ecological work

Place-based work joining nervous-system regulation, sensory awareness, community connection, and relationship with the living world.

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03 / Current work

Training · Place · Publication

Learning from bodies, systems, and the living world.

Somatic-Informed EMDR

November 6, 2026 · Live virtual workshop with Three Rivers Training Center.

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Acadiana Forest Bathing

The original trail, community practice, and ecotherapy/ecopsychology perspective.

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04 / Continue

There is more to the work.

Read Kathryn’s biography, credentials, and current ways to connect.

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