Katie R. Stallman

Education & Experience

I received my MSW from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996 and have been a licensed clinician in the state of Washington since 1998. I spent my entire career working in the area of public and private child welfare. After years of agency work, I opened my private practice in 2014 and specialize in all issues impacting the adoption constellation. I have a particular interest in open adoption, working with parents who are parenting children with histories of abuse, neglect, or orphanage care and in work with first/birth parents. I also specialize in working dyadically with parents and children on attachment issues using Theraplay and attachment focused family therapy. I have loved applying EMDR to this particular population and became fully certified in January of 2022. I also recently became certified in the IATP model at the end of 2021 which was created specifically for kids and families with trauma and attachment issues. I also am working toward the Registered Play Therapist (RPT) credential. Additionally, I hold memberships with NASW, The Theraplay Institute, and the Association for Play Therapy. I also completed Deborah Gray's ATFT program through ATTACh and am listed as one of their recommended providers.