Dr. Katherine Conlon Hutchinson is a senior clinician at Peak City Psychology, where she has been serving the community for over 15 years. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Pre-Medicine studies from the University of Notre Dame, and her doctorate in Psychology from Duke University. As a licensed psychologist in North Carolina and a member of PSYPACT, Katherine is able to provide telehealth services in over 30 states, as well as in person therapy in our Apex, NC office.

Dr. Hutchinson works with adults and couples, from college-aged to seniors, helping them navigate issues like anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, parenting stress, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She also assists clients in working through family-of-origin issues and childhood experiences. Dr. Hutchinson’s training and experience includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion Focus Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Approach to couples therapy. She is also Daring Way Certified, drawing on Brené Brown’s research on shame, belonging, and resilience to inform her work. Other influences include Nedra Glover Tawwab’s work on boundaries, Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s work on stress and burnout, Kristen Neff’s work on self-compassion, Esther Perel’s work with couples, and Mona Delahooke’s approach to brain-body parenting. 

Using a holistic, integrative and collaborative approach, Dr. Hutchinson works with her clients to develop unique treatment plans that take into account societal, cultural, family and individual factors and needs. Overall, her approach includes equal parts building insight, understanding, and compassion for how you arrived at where you are, and empowering her clients to make choices to change their mindset, shift their attention, and build new neural pathways to establish healthier ways of coping, connecting and living. She believes that therapy can benefit everyone, regardless of whether they meet clinical criteria for a mental health diagnosis.