Katie Kearns is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice at 3Rivers Therapists in Squirrel Hill.  She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh.  Katie has a true passion for treating eating disorders and helping individuals develop a healthy, normalized relationship with food, weight, and shape.  She worked at UPMC Western Behavioral from 2015-2022.  She initially began working as a social worker at Western Behavioral Hospital on the inpatient COPE (Center for Overcoming Problematic Eating) unit.  She transitioned to working for UPMC Western Behavioral Hospital’s Center for Eating Disorders as a behavioral therapist within the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs.  Katie also worked within the UPMC ADAPT Program, a comprehensive DBT treatment center that specializes in management of borderline personality disorder.  Katie has formal training in comprehensive DBT, as well as CBT-E.  Katie continues to treat eating disorders, depression, anxiety, emotion regulation, self-harm, and chronic suicidality in private practice.  Katie is looking to continue treating these diagnoses through a psychodynamic lens.

Learner 2023-2025 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Practice Program