Dr. Katie Kirk is a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed addiction counselor, and the founder of Black Sand Therapeutic Services. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: people and the systems they belong to are deeply connected, and real growth in one often depends on understanding the other. That belief has shaped a career spanning clinical practice, supervision, and organizational consulting — helping clinicians grow into confident practitioners, leaders think more clearly under pressure, organizations build genuine cohesion, and individuals find their way toward real healing.

Her work with clinicians and organizations includes clinical supervision for licensure candidates, gender health consultation, and executive coaching, alongside consulting services for organizations navigating team dynamics, collaboration challenges, and process improvement. She also partners with corporations on cultural competency, DEI, and inclusivity work, bringing a psychologically-informed lens to conversations too often reduced to a compliance checklist.

On the clinical side, she also offers individual therapy for those carrying the weight of trauma and complex trauma, drawing on evidence-based approaches — including TF-CBT, EMDR, and somatic-based techniques — that honor how deeply trauma can live in the body, not just the mind. Her clinical background spans forensic settings, hospitals, and medical offices, giving her genuine familiarity with the complicated, high-stakes stories of the people she works with, including those facing addiction, police and public safety professionals, trauma survivors, and individuals navigating gender identity.

Whether she's supporting a clinician, a leader, an organization, or an individual in therapy, Dr. Kirk brings the same combination of clinical rigor and real care — meeting people exactly where they are, and helping them move toward greater clarity, resilience, and integrity.

Black sand is formed under immense pressure — volcanic rock, broken down and reshaped, that goes on to become some of the most fertile ground on earth. It's an apt name for a practice built on the idea that the hardest conditions aren't necessarily the enemy of growth; often, they're what makes it possible.

Black Sand Therapeutic Services currently has limited space for individual psychotherapy. If you are interested in individual care, please reach out — we'd be glad to talk with you about what's available.