KATY ROTHFELDER, MA, LPC
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
SHE/HER
I am a licensed mental health clinician. I specialize in supporting individuals suffering with OCD and related disorders as well as neurodivergent children and adolescents. I also enjoy working with individuals and families experiencing behavioral challenges and/or life stressors such as grief and loss.
I believe clients and their families who have come to therapy have made courageous choices to seek services, and I start from a place of compassion to assess the needs of those I work with. I am passionate about helping clients in all bodies and all abilities from an evidence-based, therapeutically supportive and collaborative stance with confidence and hope in their capacity to grow and thrive in the life most meaningful to them. I strive to embody anti-discrimination, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and anti-ableism in all that I do.
As part of the ATCA team, I am an advocate and cheerleader for compassionately tailored, evidence based practice including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP). I commit to these empirically supported treatments with flexibility and curiosity for each client’s own journey, fitting treatment to address the values, cultures, and needs of each person.
I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from Southwestern University with a focus on interpersonal factors in disclosing and relating to mental illness, and my Master of Arts in Counseling from St. Edward’s University. I also hold a Masters degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of Nevada-Reno and am a Board Certified Behavior Analyist Candidate under the supervision of Julianne Bell, BCBA. I have gained clinical experience in school settings and amongst multi-disciplinary teams for challenges related to OCD and related disorders, neurodivergent populations, grief and loss, as well as other comorbid stressors. I have completed a number of advanced trainings in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, SPACE (Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions), Exposure and Response Prevention, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I am a graduate of the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute throuf the International OCD Foundation. Prior to beginning my graduate degree, I worked for several years in the development and marketing of local nonprofits and provided ABA services to early learns with neurodiverse backgrounds. I am a published author on mental health narrative in one of the nation’s top rhetorical journals.
Contact and Fees
Please contact me at katy@anxietyaustin.com, 512-879-1836 ext.810, or via our contact page, if you would like to discuss the possibility of working with me and the Anxiety Treatment Center. For a standard 50-minute session, my fee is $210, and the fee for an initial evaluation is $250. While I do not accept insurance, I am happy to provide you with an invoice that includes all the billing codes required to obtain reimbursement from your insurance company. I also maintain a limited number of reduced fee slots for individuals and families facing financial hardship.
Publications & Presentations
Rothfelder, K. & Thornton, D. (2017). Man interrupted: Mental illness narrative as a rhetoric of proximity Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 47, 359-382. doi: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1279343
Rothfelder, K., Gould, E., Coreil, A., & Coyne, L. (2022, July 8) Functional analysis in process: Using process based principles to support effective OCD treatment. International OCD Foundation Conference 2022, Denver, Colorado.
Rothfelder, K., & Saffer, R. (2022, July 9) Making meaning from loss: Moving beyond grief in OCD treatment. International OCD Foundation Conference 2022, Denver, Colorado.
Rothfelder, K., Sorensen, D., Hill, D., Payne, J. & Miller, M. (2022, June 18) The diffusion of defusion: Disseminating and promoting contextual behavioral science through popular media. Association for Contextual Behavioral Science World Conference 2022, San Francisco, California.