Treatment

Kati N. Lake, PhD, MSc, MA, MPhil (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides evidence-based treatment for individuals experiencing the impacts of trauma, depression, mood, anxiety, life transitions, obsessions/compulsions, and women’s mental health in the greater New York City area. She is currently accepting new clients.

What You Can Expect in Treatment

We begin with assessing what is triggering and maintaining your stress. Next, we review treatment options and select the right one to address your symptoms. Across our work, we measure changes in your behaviors, thoughts, and emotions to ensure we are on the right path as well as explore how your experiences and identities influence your well-being.

Assessment and Diagnosis

In the initial three to four sessions, we conduct an assessment of your behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and functioning. The assessment provides a solid foundation for accurate diagnosis and then effective treatment of your symptoms.

Evidenced-Based Treatment

Once a diagnosis is established, we review specific evidence-based treatments proven to reduce your symptoms. Next, you select a treatment based on your unique needs and preferences. Together, we map out a plan with specific and measurable goals that are routinely evaluated.

Trauma-Informed, Patient-Centered Care

Our work is guided by trauma-informed approaches to care, which address the psychological and neurobiological impacts of trauma. I also embrace patient-centered care practices, inviting you to actively collaborate in treatment, which has been shown to increase autonomy, self-efficacy, and capacity for authentic expression.

Evidenced-Based Treatments

Informed by current clinical research, Dr. Lake offers a variety of treatments for Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Somatic Disorders, and Substance Disorders, Personality Disorders, as well as Suicidal Behavior and Non–Suicidal Self–Injury.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT is a short-term, structured treatment that teaches individuals how to be their own therapist by identifying, challenging, and changing unhelpful or inaccurate thoughts to transform behaviors and emotions.

Cognitive Processing Therapy

CPT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps individuals to identify, challenge, and change unhelpful or inaccurate beliefs surrounding a traumatic event.

Prolonged Exposure

PE is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that assists individuals in approaching behaviors, thoughts, and emotions they have been avoiding related to a traumatic event.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

DBT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that teaches skills to honor both acceptance (e.g., person, situation) and change (e.g., mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness).

Dialectical Behavior Therapy–Prolonged Exposure

DBT–PE is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy for those with PTSD that also experience life-threatening behaviors, such as self–harming or suicidality.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy

IPT is a type of interpersonal therapy that helps individuals to identify current relationships and/or situations triggering and sustaining distress and then helping to improve them through the use of skills and by mobilizing social support.

Written Exposure Therapy

WET is a type of extinction therapy that assists individuals by having them write about a traumatic experience.