I’m a licensed clinical psychologist in Georgia and registered with PSYPACT. I provide virtual therapy to clients in Georgia and participating PSYPACT states. I specialize in OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety-related concerns, with a particular focus on the places where OCD and eating disorders overlap.
Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with clients in many different settings, including private practice, college counseling centers, community mental health centers, and partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs. I have over 10 years of specialty experience and training, helping clients with eating disorders and OCD across different levels of care.
Through this work, I became especially interested in how complicated it can be when OCD and eating disorder symptoms become tangled together. Food, exercise, body image, health concerns, perfectionism, rigid rules, and the need to feel certain can all become intertwined. Sometimes even the person experiencing it isn’t sure what’s driving a particular thought, fear, rule, or behavior.
I’ve also seen how treating one concern without paying attention to the other can leave people feeling stuck. You might make progress with your eating disorder only to find OCD creeping into recovery or work hard on your OCD while eating disorder rules and fears continue to shape your choices. Helping clients make sense of this overlap and address both concerns together has become one of the primary focuses of my practice.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is central to my work with OCD. My specialized OCD training includes the International OCD Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI), an intensive training in ERP for OCD and related disorders with expert clinical consultation. I also draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), interpersonal approaches, and EMDR depending on what makes sense for you and your treatment goals.
While OCD and eating disorders are my primary areas of focus, I also work with people experiencing anxiety, panic, phobias, perfectionism, people pleasing, imposter phenomenon, life transitions, grief ,and relationship concerns.
Katie Burns, Psy.D.
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Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Georgia State University Counseling Center
Psy.D. – Clinical Psychology, University of Hartford – Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology
A.P.A. Accredited Internship – Emory University Counseling and Psychological Services
M.A. – Clinical Practices in Psychology, University of Hartford
B.S. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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