Kathy Kartheiser-Paal is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30+ years of working with children, adolescents and families. She has often worked in regular education and special education school programs, as well as with clinic clients. She has worked with individuals, families and groups. She is trained in family systems, functional family therapy, trauma based cognitive behavioral therapy (TBCBT), narrative exposure therapy (NET) and various other modalities. She enjoys working with all kinds of people, especially in the school setting as it allows her to have access to more areas of a client’s life. She also brings the philosophy that there are no bad people, only people who need to learn a different way to get what they need. She also often uses humor. She is married, has two grown children and 3 grandchildren. She likes to read, watch TV and movies, take walks and travel.