06/01/2026
Each month, we're highlighting one of our incredible VAMFT members! Reach out if you’d like to be featured or to nominate someone else!
This month, meet Kathryn “Kassie” Welch. Kassie is a Resident in Marriage and Family Therapy practicing in Virginia and Florida through telehealth. Her work focuses primarily on couples therapy, with particular interest in helping high achieving individuals and couples navigate communication difficulties, emotional disconnection, neurodivergence, financial stress, caregiving responsibilities, and life transitions.
Kassie’s clinical approach integrates emotional regulation, practical communication tools, and evidence-based relationship work, including Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She values creating a collaborative and emotionally safe environment where clients can better understand the patterns shaping their relationships and develop healthier, more sustainable ways of relating.
Prior to becoming a therapist, Kassie spent more than twenty years working in real estate lending, financial services, and financial literacy education. That background continues to inform her work with individuals and couples navigating the emotional and relational impact of financial stress, decision-making, and changing family roles over time.
Additional areas of interest include trauma-informed care, neurodivergent relationships, veteran and first responder experiences, and helping couples who may appear successful outwardly while struggling privately within their relationships.
Kassie is passionate about increasing awareness of relationship-centered and systemic approaches to therapy and enjoys writing and speaking about couples work, emotional health, and relational well-being.
Website: www.engagerenewtherapy.com, www.beachcottagecounseling.com
