Katie O’Connor, M.S.Ed.

Meet Katie

katie.oconnor@birchpsychology.com | 303.834.1026 ext. 20

Katie is a school psychology extern and graduate student at the University of Denver. While working toward her doctoral degree, she has worked in public schools, private practice providing psychotherapy, and at a neuropsychology clinic providing comprehensive evaluations. She serves preschool, elementary, middle, and high school youth and their families.

Katie has specialization in learning, attention, behavioral, and social-emotional challenges associated with neurodevelopmental disabilities or twice-expectational presentations. As a trainee clinician with supervision, she has worked in schools and clinical settings to diagnose specific learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), developmental language disorder (DLD), autism, and anxiety in early childhood, school-aged children, and middle school-aged teens. Her therapeutic experience includes treatment for stress, anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, school problems, life transitions, emotional dysregulation, sensory processing differences, behavior challenges, and relationship problems. 

Katie provides psychotherapy for individuals and families and assessment services for children, adolescents, and young adults. Her work is grounded in cultural humility, equitable practices, resilience, and the social model of disability. Katie’s approach is relational, strengths-based, and collaborative. Her methodology integrates evidence-based practices from developmental, humanistic, attachment, and family systems theories. She brings warmth, acceptance, empathy, compassion, connection, and integrity to her work. She believes that belongingness and quality relationships are fundamental for positive life outcomes.

She can be reached at katie.oconnor@birchpsychology.com and 303.834.1026 ext. 20

Assessment Specialties – Comprehensive Neuropsychology Evaluations for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Language Disorders, Sensory Processing, and ADHD; Social-Emotional Assessments for Anxiety, Depression, and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder (OCD); School Consultation/Advocacy for IEPs and 504 Plans

Therapeutic Specialties – Relational; Play Therapy; Mindfulness; Humanistic Therapy; Attachment Therapy; Motivational Interviewing; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); Trauma-Focused CBT; Individual Therapy; Parent Coaching; Parent-Child Dyadic Therapy; Family Therapy; Executive Functioning Coaching; Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, Selective Mutism, Grief and Loss, and Behavior Problems