Katie Phillips, LCSW is a trauma therapist with 20 years of experience. Her passion is to help individuals learn more about mental health and wellness. In addition to working in private practice, she enjoys writing in order to validate folks in therapy, normalize mental health and addiction recovery, and provide individuals with helpful mental health tools.
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Authored Posts:
Understanding Withdrawal Symptoms & Detoxification
Understanding Withdrawal Symptoms & Detoxification Detoxification is the first and most crucial step in overcoming a substance use disorder (SUD), but it’s also a step into the unknown. Understanding withdrawal symptoms and detoxification will help ...
What Happens During an Initial Assessment for Addiction Treatment?
What Happens During an Initial Assessment for Addiction Treatment? An initial assessment is an essential first step in the treatment of substance misuse and the recovery process. Because every individual’s relationship to addiction is unique, ...
Link Between Trauma & Substance Use Disorders
Link Between Trauma & Substance Use Disorders According to insights from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), traumatic experiences—including neglect, family and social conflict, violence, abuse, and much more—are associated with both ...
Supporting Recovery in College & University Settings
Supporting Recovery in College and University Settings As students dive into college life, they face a whirlwind of stressors that might push them toward substance use. Between the academic grind, newfound freedom, and social pressures, ...
Neurobiology of Addiction
The Neurobiology of Addiction: How Drugs Affect the Brain Addiction and substance misuse were long viewed as character flaws, and those who struggled with them were labeled as “weak” or lacking in self-control. Thankfully, ...
The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health
The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health It’s hard to think of anything in recent years that has impacted our lives as profoundly as social media. In the roughly 30 years ...
